A. Van Jordan

B. 1965
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A. Van Jordan is the author of five collections: When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again (W. W. Norton & Company, 2023); The Cineaste (Norton, 2013); Quantum Lyrics (Norton, 2007); M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A (Norton, 2005), which was listed as one the Best Books of 2005 by the London Times; and Rise (Tia Chucha Press, 2001), which was awarded the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. 

Jordan is the winner of a Whiting Writers Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He is also a recipient of a 2015 Lannan Literary Award in Poetry, a 2009 United States Artists Fellowship, and a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship.

He served as the Robert Hayden Collegiate Professor of English at the University of Michigan.