Jordan E. Franklin is a poet and educator from Brooklyn, NY. Her work has appeared in the Southampton Review, Breadcrumbs, easy paradise, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Frontier, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2017 James Hearst Poetry Prize offered by the North American Review, and a finalist of both the 2018 Nightjar Review Poetry Contest, and the 2019 Furious Flower Poetry Prize.

Her first poetry collection, when the signals come home, was selected as the winner of the 2020 Gatewood Prize and was published by Switchback Books in March 2021. Recently, her poetry chapbook, boys in the electric age, was published Tolsun Books in August 2021. Besides writing, she enjoys teaching it, performing poetry, video games, cartoons and movies.