Jordan Abel is an academic and poet who lives and works in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[1] He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta.
Jordan Abel | |
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 Abel in 2019 | |
| Born | British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Academic, poet |
| Alma mater | University of Alberta University of British Columbia Simon Fraser University |
| Period | 2010s-present |
Early life and education
editAbel was born Vancouver, British Columbia to a Nisga'a father and white mother.[2][3] He grew up in Barrie, Ontario.[2]
Abel graduated with a B.A. in English with Creative Writing at University of Alberta in 2008 followed by a M.F.A. from University of British Columbia in 2012. He received a Ph.D from the Department of English at Simon Fraser University in 2019.[4]
Work
editAbel's work addresses settler-colonialism directly, often through conceptual poetic approaches to overtly colonial texts (for example, Abel's books cut up, sample, and interrupt the Project Gutenberg archive of Western novels and Marius Barbeau's Totem Poles).
His first book of poetry, The Place of Scraps (Talonbooks), used as source text the work of 20th century ethnographer Marius Barbeau.[5] It won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award in 2014.[6][7] His second book, Un/inhabited, was named one of the best 75 books of 2015 by the CBC.[8][9]
Abel's third and most recent book of poetry, Injun, won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017.[10] The poems were based on 91 Western novels written during the past three centuries.[11]
Abel's memoir NISHGA was published in 2020, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.[12]
His novel Empty Spaces, published in 2023, was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award,[13] and won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2024 Governor General's Awards.[14]
Poetry
edit- The Place of Scraps (Talonbooks, 2013)
- Un/inhabited (Talonbooks, 2015)
- Injun (Talonbooks, 2016)
- NISHGA (Penguin Random House, 2020)
Fiction
edit- Empty Spaces (Penguin Random House, 2023)
References
edit- ^ "Professor Listing – Jordan Abel". University of Alberta. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ a b Lederman, Marsha (2 June 2017). "With Injun, Jordan Abel finds poetic justice". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ Volmers, Eric (21 May 2021). "Poet Jordan Abel explores his Indigenous identity and his past with innovative new memoir, NISHGA". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae - Jordan Abel". Retrieved 3 June 2024 – via University of Alberta.
- ^ "The Place of Scraps". CBC Books. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ "Jordan Abel's The Place of Scraps". Jacket2. 8 August 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ "Arthur Erickson biography claims pair of B.C. Book Prizes". The Globe and Mail. 5 May 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ "CBCbooks.ca Best of Books of the Year – 2015" (PDF). Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ "Jordan Abel". CBC Books. 24 June 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ "Jordan Abel wins $65K Griffin Poetry Prize for Injun". CBC Books. 8 June 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
- ^ "Vancouver poet Jordan Abel wins $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize". Toronto Star, Lauren La RoseThe Canadian Press, 9 June 2017
- ^ Vicky Qiao, "Jordan Abel & Ian Williams among five finalists for $60K Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction". CBC Books, September 15, 2021.
- ^ Cassandra Drudi, "2024 Amazon First Novel Award shortlist revealed". Quill & Quire, May 9, 2024.
- ^ Cassandra Szklarski, "2 Winnipeggers pick up Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC News Manitoba, November 13, 2024.
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