Jordan Scott (born May 8, 1978) is a Canadian poet, who won the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize in 2018.
[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.