[ Jacob Jing ]

about

Jacob Jing is an 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
  • Poetry Reader, Okay Donkey Magazine
  • Attendee, Iowa Young Writers' Studio '24
  • Workshop Fellow, Young Poets Workshop '24
  • Mentee, The Adroit Journal's Summer Mentorship Program '24
  • Mentee, SUNHOUSE Literary Summer Writing Mentorship '24