The genres change. The obsession underneath them usually doesn’t.

Jordan is fascinated by human behavior: how people treat one another, what survives when the structures around us fall away, and what ultimately makes us human. Her characters tend to struggle through immense darkness searching for the light. The world can be brutal, unfair, strange, absurd, and occasionally horrifying; Jordan likes to put her characters through hell and then properly reward them for surviving.

She wants audiences to care.

And she wants to entertain the hell out of them at the same time.

Her work has been praised for its “fascinating, flawed characters, immersive world building, and mischievous originality.” For Jordan, writing is a radical act of compassion.

That philosophy extends beyond screenwriting. Jordan is also the founder of Luring Press, an independent publishing and IP company with twelve novels currently in its catalog across multiple genres. What began as a publishing venture is growing toward something larger: an expanding slate of original story properties with potential across publishing, film and television, and emerging forms of interactive narrative.

That might have been inevitable.

Jordan was raised in a nomadic family that lived frugally in order to travel, which meant her childhood was filled with adventure and lessons in sonder. She has luged into volcano calderas in New Zealand, pulled dinosaur vertebrae and gold nuggets from the earth of the American Southwest, and cradled cobras in Morocco. Somewhere along the way, she fell hopelessly in love with movies, television, books, strange worlds, and the people who inhabit them—and realized she wanted to spend her life creating more.

Jordan holds B.A.s in Journalism and Biology from the University of Richmond and an M.F.A. in Writing for Screen & Television from USC.

When she isn’t writing, she enjoys being a book goblin, rain connoisseur, khaki adventurer, and diehard theme park girl.