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Jordan Jones is the author of Sand and Coal: Poems, published by Futharc Press in 1993 and The Wheel: Poems, published by Leaping Dog Press in 2005.

His poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and translations have appeared in The American Book Review, Asylum, The Boston Book Review, Fiction International, Heaven Bone, The LA Reader, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Small Press, Vice Versa and in the anthologies

Anyone Is Possible: New American Short Fiction

(Red Hen Press, 1998) and

What Book: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop

(Parallax Press, 1998). In 2004, Obscure Publications published Selections from The Wheel. His translation of René Daumal’s poetry collection Le Contre-Ciel appeared in two chapbooks from Obscure Publications in 2003 and 2004.

His writing on genealogical research methods, book reviews on genealogy titles, and records transcriptions have appeared in The Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly, The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, The National Genealogical Society Magazine, and The National Genealogical Quarterly.

He was co-editor of The Northridge Review, poetry editor of California Quarterly, and founder, editor, and publisher of Bakunin (1990–1997), a literary magazine “for the dead Russian anarchist in all of us.” In 2003, he co-founded and co-edited the online multimedia collaborative art exhibit, The 365 Project. He is currently the co-owner, editor and publisher of Coyote Arts LLC and formerly of Leaping Dog Press and Asylum Arts Publications.

He grew up in California, and has also lived in Texas, France, Virginia, and North Carolina. He currently lives in the Rio Grande watershed of Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife, mother-in-law, and two fur-bearing creatures.