Jordan M. Poss is a native of Rabun County, in the beautiful north Georgia mountains. In 2010 he graduated from Clemson University, where he studied Anglo-Saxon England and military history, with an MA in European History. He currently teaches Western Civ and American History at Piedmont Technical College in Greenwood, South Carolina.

He lives in upstate South Carolina with his wife—a Texas native—and five children.

No Snakes in Iceland, a ghost story set in Viking Age Iceland, begun in 2007 and published in 2016, is his first published novel. He also wrote and published the historical novella The Last Day of Marcus Tullius Cicero in 2016. Dark Full of Enemies, a commando thriller set in Nazi-occupied Norway during World War II, appeared just before Christmas 2017. In September 2018 he published Griswoldville, a coming-of-age story set in Georgia during the American Civil War. Griswoldville is his most popular and best-reviewed novel.

Jordan’s most recent book is The Snipers, an action novella set during the Battle of Aachen in October 1944. Published in June 2023, readers have already praised its pacing, action, authenticity, and surprising and moving ending.

He has appeared as a frequent guest on the Sectarian Review Podcast with Danny Anderson; multiple episodes of the Core Curriculum Podcast on the Iliad, the Odyssey, Sappho, and Aristotle; and co-presented a series on Roman political history and the Middle Ages on The City of Man Podcast with regular host Coyle Neal. He has also appeared as a guest on the Christian Humanist Podcast, Impolitic with Paul Matzko, The Book of Nature, and The Front Porch Show.

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