Jordan Scott (born May 8, 1978) is a Canadian poet, who won the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize in 2018.[1]
Scott's first book of poetry, Silt, was published in 2005, and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2006.[2] He followed up in 2008 with Blert, a collection of poetry inspired by his lifelong struggle with stuttering.[3]
In 2013, Scott and Stephen Collis collaborated on Decomp, a book which combined prose poetry with photography.[4] In 2015 he was granted access to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, spending five days exploring the facility and publishing the multimedia work Clearance Process in 2016 to document his visit.[5]
His 2020 children's book, I Talk Like a River, was named as Best Children's Book of the Year Award for 2020 by Publishers Weekly,[6] and was a finalist for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize.[7]