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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

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A former foreign service officer, Mark Jacobs lives with his wife Anne Bulen at Heron Hill in rural Virginia. He has published 180 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. His five books include three novels and two collections of short stories.

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​Forthcoming

“A Manual of Adjectives,” The Hudson Review.
“After the Meltdown, on the Hunt,” Lowestoft Chronicle
  “Book Words,” The Hudson Review
 “Clean and Legal, With Birds,” The Courtship of Winds
“Dealbreak,” Blue Lake Review
“Head Wound,”  Jelly Bucket
“Hibernaculum,” Talismann
 ​“Ways of Wanting,” Alaska Quarterly Review ​

Recently Published

“A Few Good Weeks,”  Bangalore Review
"Sixto in Late Light," The Hudson Review
“Dragoman,” The Hudson Review
“Famous People,” The Saturday Evening Post
“Potatoes,” Cherry Tree.
​“Monograph,” The Hudson Review
Swimming to the Island,” Blue Lake Review
​“Uncle Used to Have Monkeys,” The Oddville Press
​ “Worded Out,” The Oddville Press
“The Secret Book Club”  pioneertown
​"Mr. Tidy," Talisman
“Famous People,” Delmarva Review​​
“Two Things,"  Blue Lake Review
“Eulogy,”  Levee Magazine

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​Just Released

“Breakbone,” Evergreen Review

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