Jordan Taliha McDonald is an essayist, critic, editor, cultural worker, and (sometimes) poet from Seat Pleasant, Maryland. She is currently a PhD candidate in English at Harvard University with a secondary field in the history of science. Her public writing, journalism, and cultural criticism have appeared in New York magazine, Artsy, Vulture, Africa Is a Country, The Offing, Harvard Review, Lux, Complex, and other publications. Her newsletter, East Coast Lit(erary) Thot, can be read on Substack.