Queer Disabled Writer, educator, sensitivity reader
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.
Pre-covid performance photos
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Left: Jordan, a white queer femme with brown hair, standing on a stage in SF, wearing a blue tank top, peach pants, and a grey sweatshirt with gold and silver sandals.
Right: Jordan, a white queer femme, standing at a mic in Albuquerque at a regional competition. She is wearing a red tank top and black shorts, her hair is french braided and one hand is over her chest and the other is palm up sightly pointing away from her.
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brindle staffy sitting in the front seat like she owns it, pointing with her paw at the driver who she expects to pet her.
Full Bio
Jordan Dalzell (she/her/they) is a queer disabled 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. Most of her life has been working in education, with a large emphasis on Early Childhood Education.
Her creative writing and art have been published in Kaledeiscope, Flare Lit mag, Passwords, and the Bitter and Righteous zine as well as others. Her articles and personal essay work has been published in Rooted in Rights, Art of Autism, and the book Reclaiming Judaism From Zionism. She is in process of writing two forthcoming chapbooks on the mythology of chronic illness/mindbody and on reclaiming her Judaism from Zionism and breaking intergenerational cycles of trauma. She is a sensitivity reader, community organizer and grant writer for arts organizations.
She spends way too much time bickering with her very sassy staffy whose 11 going on puppyhood, and trying to stop her from adopting every cat in a ten mile radius.
