Jordan K. Casomar is a Black, DC-based prose writer from Iowa. His essays have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Kweli Journal, Catapult, and elsewhere. He was a semi-finalist for PEN America's Writing for Justice fellowship, an honorable mention for The Loft Literary Center's 2019-2020 Mentor Series, and a runner-up for the Pinch’s 2018 Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction. Jordan holds an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction from the University of Minnesota.
While at MacDowell started and finished a draft of a novel based on his great-grandfather's murder in St. Louis in 1975.
