[ Jacob Jing ]

about

Jacob Jing is a senior at the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science and incoming freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. He poeticizes his personal truths in hopes of reaching others, and he believes in writing as a way to promote change. In his free time, he enjoys photography, naps, and the $3 milkshakes from the student union.

awards and selected work
  • Recipient of the Scholastic Gold Medal Writing Portfolio Award (2025)
  • A New Condition, Finalist in Pulitzer Center's Fighting Words Poetry Contest (2024)
  • Recipient of Emergence Exhibition Award presented by UNT College of Visual Arts and Design (2024)
  • Meditations on Boyhood forthcoming in The Margins (2025)
  • For Venessa published in Dishsoap Quarterly (2024)
  • park bench boyhood published in the Eunoia Review (2024)
  • I want to tell my online friends I love them published in Eucalyptus Literary Magazine (2024)
  • body in fire published in Corporeal Literary Magazine (2023)
  • the prince and his knight published in Spellbinder Magazine (2023)
experience
  • Creative Nonfiction Reader, CRAFT Literary
  • Attendee, Iowa Young Writers' Studio '24
  • Workshop Fellow, Young Poets' Workshop
  • Mentee, The Adroit Journal's Summer Mentorship Program '24
  • Mentee, SUNHOUSE Literary Summer Writing Mentorship '24
  • Staff Writer, SeaGlass Literary
  • Staff Photographer, Synthesis Publications