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Jordan Scott is a Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canadian-based writer and poet.

Biography
Scott was born in Coquitlam British Columbia and went to Simon Fraser University for his BA in Creative Writing and then to the University of Calgary for the MA in Creative Writing and English Lit. Jordan’s first book of poetry, Silt (New Star Books), was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In the fall of 2006, Jordan worked on the final sections of blert while acting as a writer in residence at the International Writers’ and Translators’ Centre in Rhodes, Greece. In 2008, Scott wrapped up his second book blert. Blert explores the poetics of the stutter. Sections of Blert have appeared in filling Station, drunken boat and nypoesi. The poem fable, was the inspiration for the Bravo!FACT short film entitled Stutter, which was collaboratively produced with the Artist Bloc collective in the spring of 2008.

Scott currently lives in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver. Jordan spends the spring and summer slinging canoes at Pitt Lake, the largest freshwater tidal lake in North America.