Jordan Franklin

Jordan E. Franklin is a Black poet and educator from Brooklyn, NY. An alumna of Brooklyn College, she earned her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton and her PhD from Binghamton University. 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 the 2019 Furious Flower Poetry Prize.

She is the author of the poetry collection, when the signals come home (Switchback Books, 2021), which was selected by Prageeta Sharma for the 2020 Gatewood Prize, and a poetry chapbook, boys in the electric age (Tolsun Books, 2021). Her second poetry collection, make it to the end (of the movie), was chosen by Evie Shockley for the 2025 Blessing the Boats Selection and will be published by BOA Editions in Fall 2027.