A. Van Jordan

A. Van Jordan (born 1965 Akron, Ohio) is an American poet.

He graduated from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, 1987, with a BA. He graduated from Howard University, 1990, with an MA. He graduated from Warren Wilson College, 1998, with an MFA. He lived in Washington, D.C. from 1988 to 2002.

He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of Texas at Austin, and Warren Wilson College, at the University of Michigan, and he currently teaches at Rutgers University-Newark as the Henry Rutgers Presidential Professor.

His work has appeared in Ploughshares, and Callaloo amongst other publications.

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