Jordyn Sheldon (she/they) is a settler writer, scholar, and educator from Winnipeg, Manitoba (Treaty 1 Territory). Her work weaves together queer ecology, and the embodied politics of survival under late capitalism and settler colonialism. She is currently completing a PhD in Environmental and Urban Studies at York University, where her research explores land and place-based solidarity, abolitionist world-building and peer-led harm reduction networks on the Canadian Prairies.

Jordyn holds an MA in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory from McMaster University and a BA in Rhetoric, Writing and Communications and Human Rights from the University of Winnipeg. She has taught courses in Women’s and Gender Studies, Human Rights, Urban and Inner City Studies and Cultural Studies, and has worked extensively in community-based education, harm reduction, and human rights education.

Her writing has appeared in Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy and Crossings, and she has co-authored harm reduction curriculum with the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network. Jordyn is currently Co-Editor in Chief of UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies and Assistant Managing Editor at Contemporary Verse 2. Across writing, teaching, and facilitation, she is committed to poetic and relational approaches care and transformation.