Jiordan Castle is the author of Disappearing Act, a young adult memoir in verse. Her poetry and prose appear in The New Yorker, The Millions, HuffPost, The Rumpus, and elsewhere, including the anthologies Best New Poets and What My Father and I Don’t Talk About. Originally from New York, she has a BA in Writing from the University of San Francisco and an MFA in Poetry from Hunter College. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and their dog.