Stephen Earley Jordan, II was born in Huntington,
West Virginia. After graduating from Ceredo-Kenova High School in 1995, he
attended Alderson-Broaddus College, Philippi, West
Virginia. Jordan has a BA in Writing and a BA in Literature. He attended one
year of Graduate School at Marshall University,
Huntington, West Virginia. He has completed courses in Methods of Research and
Bibliography, Educational Methods of Research, Technical Writing, Journalism,
Developmental Studies of the English Language, Ethnic Literature, Outsiders—the
Women’s Novel, Communications, Journalism, and many Creative
Writing Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction courses.
After a year of graduate school, Jordan moved to Jersey City,
New Jersey and founded OutStretch Publications—an at-home, freelance
business. OutStretch Publications thrives on publishing upcoming writers in its bimonthly,
in-print newsletter for writers. The newsletter features writing tips, poetry, prose,
interviews, top 5 websites, and more.
Currently, Jordan participates in poetry readings across the New
York/New Jersey area. He is in the process of developing various programs and soon will be
ready to be booked for poetry readings/discussions for special events. Jordan completes
short-term/freelance projects and works as an Editor with Gimme Credit Publications in Manhattan.
His works have appeared online—Timbooktu.com, Poetry.com;
Inprint—Out of Line Magazine (For Peace and Social Justice), Grab-a-Nickel Newspaper,
Dickinsonian: A McArts Publication- Spring 2000, Dan River Anthology 2000; Century
Anthology; Influx: Alderson-Broaddus College Literary Magazine, and many other journals,
newsletters, anthologies, and newspapers. His writing tips have been becoming popular and
will be seen on various sites such as —Romance-Central.com,RainyDayCorner.com, MentalSatin.com, and Inspired to Journal.
