Liska Jacobs
Los Angeles, CA, USA | Writer
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.
Books by Liska Jacobs
“Liska Jacobs, ‘The Worst Kind of Want’ “The Worst Kind of Want” is Jacobs’ second novel and it’s painful, sexy, lost, and deeply rendered. More importantly, it sets up Jacobs for what I think is about to be her breakout novel, due next year, about life in Los Angeles. For my money, she’s somewhere between Janet Fitch and James M. Cain — she doesn’t write noir novels intentionally, but they end up feeling like noir novels anyway.”
