Jiordan Castle

author of the chapbook All His Breakable Things (2020)

Currently writing and curating The Long Pause..., a quarantine-inspired series of flash fiction and prose, poetry, and visual art over at Pigeon Pages, a NYC-based reading series and online journal.

 

​Poems

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• "The School of the Future Looks Just Like the Past," Solar, 2020

• "Don't Tell Me to Write More Love Poems," Taco Bell Quarterly, 2020

• "reCAPTCHA," New Ohio Review, 2019

• "The One Where _____ _____," Third Point Press, 2019

• BUY: "Allegory of the Father" and "Home Alone," Nature issue of Compound Butter, 2019

• BUY: "Handheld" and "The Bargain," vol. 2: barrios/neighborhoods of Frontera, 2018

• "Disappearing Act," Cagibi, 2018

• "Barbed Wire," Vinyl, 2018

• "The MetroCard Machine Asks Whether I Want to Add Value or Time," Verdad, 2018

• BUY: "Elegy on Enamel," "Feed Me," and "The Happiest Couple We Know," Love issue of Compound Butter, 2018

• BUY: "Ocean, Night," After Dark issue of Compound Butter, 2016

• "SWEAR Girls," Brain Mill Press, 2016

• "This is How You Lose Me," Bitterzoet Magazine, 2015

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Essays & Stories

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• "I Was Desperate To Find A Roommate. Now, I’m Marrying Him During A Pandemic." HuffPost, 2020

• BUY: "Judgement City," Fantasy issue of Compound Butter, 2020

• "If I Took Them," Hobart, 2020

• "I've Never Seen Die Hard..." Hobart, 2019

• "Missing, Not Dead": winner of the 2018 Pigeon Pages essay contest, chosen by Garrard Conley; nominated for the Pushcart Prize​

• BUY: "Staying Alive at White Castle," Junk Food issue of Compound Butter, 2019

• BUY: "The Visit," Childhood issue of Compound Butter, 2018

• BUY: "Hurricane Season," Rotten issue of Compound Butter, 2016