Jordan Escobar 

Jordan Escobar is a writer from Bakersfield, CA. He is the author of the chapbook Men with the Throats of Birds (CutBank Books, 2023). He has received support from the Fine Arts Work Center and the Community of Writers, where he was the 2024 Galway Kinnell Memorial Scholar. He is a 2023 winner of the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award and a 2022 Djanikian Scholar in Poetry with the Adroit Journal. He currently teaches at the University of California, San Diego. (Updated 1/2026)