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Liska Jacobs
Liska Jacobs is the author of two acclaimed novels, Catalina and The Worst Kind of Want both published by MCD | FSG. To quote a review in The Believer: “The Worst Kind of Want presents Jacobs at her best: thinking through the fraught ethical problems and pitfalls of desire… Jacobs is establishing herself as a novelist who can probe what it means to be both selfish and vulnerable, asking with bald-faced earnestness: What, in 2019, are adult women allowed to want—and at what cost?” Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, The Millions and The Hairpin among others. She has an MFA from the University of California, Riverside.
Update-Liska Jacobs: On Time Essay Published
Liska Jacobs is a current resident writer at 360 Xochi Quetzal Artist and Writers Residency in Chapla, Mexico. She is the author of the novels “Catalina” (FSG Originals) and “The Worst Kind of Want” (MCD). Her essays and