Mark Jacobs, author
  • Mark Jacobs
  • Books
    • Stone Cowboy
    • A Handful of Kings
    • A Cast of Spaniards
    • The Liberation of Little Heaven
    • Forty Wolves
  • Short Stories
  • Essays & Interviews
  • Bio
  • Contact
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“Mark Jacobs is one of the most exciting new writers I’ve read in years…. a writer who I think will become our own Graham Greene.”  -- Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winner in Fiction



​A former foreign service officer, Mark Jacobs lives with his wife Anne Bulen at Heron Hill in rural Virginia. He has published ​166 stories in a range of magazines including The Atlantic, The Hudson Review, Playboy, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Idaho Review, and Southern Humanities Review. His story "How Birds Communicate" won the Iowa Review Fiction Prize in 1998. His five books include three novels and two collections of short stories.
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Forthcoming

 
 ​“Ways of Wanting,” Alaska Quarterly Review 
“Swimming to the Island,” Blue Lake Review
""Billyknuckles,” The Hudson Rvview
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Recently Published


​ “Worded Out,” The Oddville Press
“The Secret Book Club”  pioneertown
​"Mr. Tidy," Talisman
​“Country Butter,” The Hudson Review
“Famous People,” Delmarva Review​​
“Two Things,"  
Blue Lake Review
“Eulogy,”  Levee Magazine


​Just Released

"Korkak," Evergreen Review

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Photographs by Eslam Abd El Salam
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