Jordan Abel is a Nisg̱a’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).
Winner 2017 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize
Short-listed 2017 2017 ReLit Award for Poetry
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)
Winner 2014 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Short-listed 2014 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award