“Jordan E. Franklin is a poet from Brooklyn, NY. In 2012, she received her BFA from Brooklyn College. Currently, she is a Turner fellow and second-year MFA candidate at Stony Brook Southampton. Her work has appeared in the Southampton Review, North American Review, Suffragette City Zine and Breadcrumbs. In 2017, her work “Black Boy” was selected by Major Jackson as the winning poem of the James Hearst Poetry Prize hosted by the North American Review.

An avid performance poet, clips of her live sets can be found on the Buzzards Banquet website.”