Jordan K. Thomas is an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at the University of Minnesota and is currently working on a memoir about his relationship to his blackness in light of the recent racial violence across the country. In 2016 he was awarded a summer research grant to research atheism in the black community as part of his memoir and, that same year, he received an Artist Initiative Grant by the Minnesota State Arts Board. His work has appeared or is forthcoming on the Toast, Entropy Magazine, and Kweli Journal.
July/Aug 2017
Dying Slow
Once a month I see a psychiatrist who refills the six medications I take every day. Three are antidepressants, one is to treat my narcolepsy, one is for anxiety and […]
