Career
His literary work is often experimental in nature, and he has been called "an avant gardist through and through". His first book, Praise of Motherhood, was noted for its unconventional approach to the genre of memoir, as well as Jourdan"s refusal to ‘allow the constraints of perspective or chronology to guide the text’ and "painful honesty". He is the author of three books:
What Precision, Such Restraint (2013, Perfect Edge Books)
John Gardner: A Tiny Eulogy (2012, Punctum books)
Translated into Spanish as Madre in memoriam.
His work has been featured in Chuck Palahniuk"s anthology, Burnt Tongues.
His translation of Portuguese novelist Jose Luis Peixoto"s first book, Morreste-me, was published in 2011 in the University of Warwick"s literary journal, The Warwick Review. Jourdan is one of the founders of the online writing workshop, LitReactor.
He has worked with various presses, including Perfect Edge (fiction) and Zero Books (political nonfiction), and is an editor at Angry Robot.