Jordan Abel

Jordan Abel is a Nisg̱a’a writer from Vancouver. He is the author of The Place of Scraps, Un/inhabited, and Injun.
His debut, The Place of Scraps (Talonbooks, 2013), received the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Injun was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Abel has served as editor for Poetry Is Dead and as poetry editor for PRISM international and Geist. He holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and a BA from the University of Alberta. His writing has appeared in journals and magazines across Canada, including CV2, The Capilano Review, Prairie Fire, dANDelion, ARC Poetry Magazine, Descant, Broken Pencil, OCW Magazine, filling Station, Grain, and Canadian Literature. He is also the author of the chapbooks Scientia and Injun, published by above/ground press and JackPine Press, respectively.

Injun

Winner 2017 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize

Short-listed 2017 2017 ReLit Award for Poetry

Un/inhabited

Joint winner 2015 One of 15 best CanLit covers of 2015 (CBC Books)

Joint winner 2015 One of the best 75 books of 2015 (CBC Books)

The Place of Scraps

Winner 2014 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

Short-listed 2014 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award

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