Jordan was born in Appalachian Virginia. Recently his work has appeared in Literary Orphans, Spittoon Monthly, decomP Magazine, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, and Scoundrel Time, for which he received the 2019 Editors’ Prize. He also co-wrote Incognito, a China-US co-production which won Best Original Screenplay at the 2020 AFMA Film Festival in Los Angeles. A graduate of the University of Virginia with an MFA from City University of Hong Kong, Jordan recently relocated to the US after living in Asia for 15 years.
To reach him, please send a note to jd at jordandotson dot com.
New & Recent Short Fiction
“Club 7-Eleven” – Looking Back at Hong Kong: an Anthology of Writing and Art, Cart Noodles Press, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Spring 2021 (forthcoming)
“Blue Snow“- Literary Orphans, July 2020, 3 minutes
“The Unicorn King” – Spittoon Monthly, June 2020, 10 minutes
“Flower Pot” – decomP Magazine, November 2019, 2 minutes
“Chiaroscuro” – Scoundrel Time, September 2019, 8 minutes
“Chinese Poetry” – Eunoia Review, July 2019, 1 hour
“The Heirloom” – Magazine of History and Fiction, June 2019, 12 minutes
“A Conversation with Death on the Subject of Love” – Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, January 2019, 12 minutes
“The Protester” – Drunken Boat, April 2015, 3 minutes