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Jiordan Castle

Jiordan Castle
Jiordan Castle is the author of Disappearing Act, a memoir in verse. Her poetry and prose appear in The New Yorker, The Millions, 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 lives in Philadelphia with her husband and their dog.


When Love Means Letting Go: Jiordan Castle on Navigating a Tumultuous Relationship With Her Father

“I had a choice: to keep my dad and lose my way or preserve us like a handprint in cement.”
May 6, 2025  By Jiordan Castle
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