Jordan Abel

Jordan Abel is a Nisga’a writer from Vancouver. He is the author of The Place of Scraps, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, Un/inhabited, and Injun, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. Abel’s work has been published in numerous journals and magazines including, Canadian Literature, The Capilano Review, Poetry Is Dead, and his visual poetry has been included in exhibitions at the Polygon Gallery, UNIT/PITT Gallery, and the Oslo Pilot Project Room. Abel recently completed a Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University and is working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing.

Jordan Abel is published by Penguin Random House Canada

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