Jordan Abel

Jordan Abel is a Nisg̱a’a writer from Vancouver. He is the author of The Place of Scraps, Un/inhabited, and Injun (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize). Abel’s latest project NISHGA (McClelland & Stewart, 2020) is a deeply personal and autobiographical book that attempts to address the complications of contemporary Indigenous existence and the often invisible intergenerational impact of residential schools.

Abel recently completed a Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University, and is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures and Creative Writing.

Injun

The Place of Scraps