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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 174 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 Few Good Weeks,”  Bangalore Review
“Famous People,” The Saturday Evening Post
“Head Wound,”  Jelly Bucket
“Potatoes,” Cherry Tree.
“Dragoman,” The Hudson Review
“Hibernaculum,” Talismann
"Sixto in Late Light," The Hudson Review
​“Monograph,” The Hudson Review 
 ​“Ways of Wanting,” Alaska Quarterly Review ​

Recently Published

​"Billyknuckles,” The Hudson Rvview​“
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
​“Country Butter,” The Hudson Review
“Famous People,” Delmarva Review​​
“Two Things,"  Blue Lake Review
“Eulogy,”  Levee Magazine

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​Just Released

"​The Art of Diplomacy and the Anticipation of Memory: Imagination at Work and Play," Evergreen Review