Jordan Jacks is a writer from Texas. His fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Yale Review, Electric Literature Recommended Reading, and elsewhere.

A former James C. McCreight Fellow in Fiction at The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Jacks has taught at UW-Madison, St. Albans School, Washington University in St. Louis, and The Cleveland Institute of Art. He has received scholarships and/or residencies from Bread Loaf, The Sewanee Writers' Conference, The Key West Literary Seminar, and The James Merrill House.

A graduate of Yale University and the M.F.A. program at Washington University in St. Louis, he lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and daughter.

[photo cred. Curt Richter]