Jordan Dotson was born in Appalachian Virginia. His work has appeared in Drunken Boat and MaLa Literary Journal, and his MFA critical thesis, The (Magical) Voice of Community in Mark Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger, in the Sept. 2017 issue of The Writers Chronicle. A graduate of the University of Virginia with an MFA from City University of Hong Kong, Jordan has lived in South China since 2005.