Jordan Abel

Jordan Abel is an Associate Professor in the Department of English & Film Studies at the University of Alberta, within the Faculty of Arts. He holds a PhD, MFA, and BA, with his doctoral work completed at Simon Fraser University in 2019. His research focuses on Creative Writing, Indigenous Literatures, Digital Humanities, and Research-Creation, emphasizing Indigenous poetics and experimental forms.

Abel’s publications include The Place of Scraps (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Injun (Griffin Poetry Prize), and NISHGA (Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and VMI Betsy Warland Award). His work appears in journals like Canadian Literature and has been widely anthologized.

He teaches courses such as Contemporary Indigenous Poetry, Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry/Nonfiction, and Projects in Genre, emphasizing innovation across literary forms. Abel is a queer Nisga’a writer from Vancouver, contributing critically to Indigenous literary scholarship and creative writing pedagogy.