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Jordan Abel is a Nisga'a writer residing in Vancouver. He is currently completing his PhD at Simon Fraser University where he is focusing on digital humanities and Indigenous poetics. Abel's conceptual writing engages with the representation of Indigenous peoples in anthropology and popular culture. His chapbooks have been published by JackPine Press and Above/Ground Press, and his work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals across Canada, includingPrairie Fire, Capilano Review, and Canadian Literature. He is an editor forPoetry Is Dead magazine and a former editor for PRISM international andGeist. Abel’s first book, The Place of Scraps (Talonbooks, 2013), was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.Un/inhabited, Abel’s second book, was co-published by Project Space Press and Talonbooks in 2015.