Jordan Kisner
Assistant Professor of English
Jordan Kisner is an essayist and cultural reporter. Her first book, Thin Places, was published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in 2020. She currently is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine; formerly, she was a contributing writer for the Atlantic and a columnist for the Paris Review Daily. Her essays, features, and reviews have appeared in n+1, the London Review of Books, Harper’s Magazine, The Guardian, The Believer, New York Magazine, Travel + Leisure, and many others. She is also the creator and host of the Literary Hub podcast, Thresholds.
Kisner is the recipient of a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, and has received support from the Black Mountain Institute, Hedgebrook, Pioneer Works, Millay Arts, and Art Omi. Her writing has been selected for The Best American Essays, honored as a finalist for the National Magazine Award in feature writing, and awarded a Pushcart Prize.
Prior to her time at Bowdoin, Kisner was the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of Iowa, and taught in the Columbia University's nonfiction MFA program.
Education
- MFA, Columbia University
- AB, Princeton University