Hoyt Jacobs (Decceased) was a winner of the Annual Loose Translations Award, co-sponsored by Hanging Loose and Queens College-CUNY. He received his MFA in poetry and translation along with his MA in TESOL from Queens College, CUNY where he taught poetry and worked as an editor for Ozone Park Journal. His work can be found in The Kenyon Review, Plume, Storyscape Journal, and other places. In January of 2015, Jacobs, an avid cyclist, was struck and killed by a truck in Long Island City. He was thirty-six.
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Hoyt Jacobs
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