I go by a lot of things:
Poet. Writer. Dog parent. Mama J. Chronically ill oddball. Editor. Teacher. Aunt.
I am a queer anti-zionist Jew with more questions than faith as I navigate my disabled immunocompromised body with conflicting access needs. I love too big, but am learning to love ny neurodivergence. My writing navigates the contradictions of chronic illness and trauma healing.
Writer Was the First Name I Called Myself
Jordan Dalzell (she/her/they) is a 32-year-old poet with a California heart. Writer was the first name she called herself. Words are her compass. Pre pandemic, she taught spoken word to youth with Bay Area Creative.
She teaches radical social justice to the little ones in her life--striving to infuse her teaching pedagogy with intersectional feminism and teaching through play. Her life centers around activism, supporting grassroots projects and one day creating a school focused on hands-on multi-lingual whole child community-based learning.
In her free time, she spends her time reading, looking up bodies of water, and taking blankets back from her dogs, Lega and Appa (yes, he's named from Avatar and the Last Airbender).
Jordan represented the Santa Cruz Poetry team two years in a row and is also the co-founder of the slam team at her graduate school in California Institute of Integral Studies.
