Jordan Jones is a writer, genealogist, and publisher.
He received his BA in Honors in English with a minor in Philosophy (magna cum laude) from California State University Northridge (1987), and his MA in English from UC Davis (1991).
He has published poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and works in translation in numerous magazines and anthologies, and is the author of two books of poetry, Sand & Coal: Poems (Futharc Press, 1993) and The Wheel: Poems (Leaping Dog Press, 2005), both of which contain poems on family history subjects. He has also published three chapbooks, two being a translation of René Daumal's Le Contre-Ciel.
Jordan has been an amateur genealogist since 1973; has designed, edited, and published books and magazines since 1987; and has designed and published websites since 1995. He is working on becoming a certified genealogist.
Jordan has spoken at several regional, statewide, and national conferences, including the 2009, 2011-2017, and 2022 National Genealogical Society Family History Conferences and the 2015–2017 FGS Conferences. A profile of him appeared in the June 2010 Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly magazine. He served as the President of the National Genealogical Society and on the board of directors of the Association for Intelligent Information Management, formerly the Association for Information and Image Management. He serves on the board of directors of the New Mexico Genealogical Society and is a past President and current secretary of the New Mexico Book Association. He and his wife run Coyote Arts, a literary publishing company in Albuquerque, New Mexico.