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Rosa Jordan grew up in the Florida Everglades, earned degrees from universities in California and Mexico, and immigrated to Canada in 1980. Her earliest writings were in the journalism field, articles drawn from high-risk travels in Central and South America. These experiences formed the basis of Dangerous Places: Travels on the Edge, an autobiographical travel narrative in which she consistently probes for the point at which political and social realities intersect with personal courage and compassion.
Her first literary novel, Far From Botany Bay(2008) won the OneBookOneKootenay award for 2011. It was followed by a second novel, The Woman She Was (2012), set in contemporary Cuba.
Rosa Jordan and her partner Derek Choukalos have written two travel guides, Cuba's Best Beaches (2014) and Lonely Planet's Cycling Cuba(2002). A third non-fiction book about Cuba, Cuba Unspun, came out in December of 2012.
Rosa also has written four young adult novels, Wild Spirits, The Last Wild Place,The Goatnappers, and Lost Goat Lane, which have garnered numerous awards, and the award-winning TV movie, The Sweetest Gift. Many of the animal characters in her movie and young adult books are based on her relationships with the domestic animals of her childhood and the wild ones she has known since.
In cooperation with Earthways Foundation of Malibu, California, Jordan has developed several grass-roots environmental and social justice projects, including food security projects in a Guatemala Mayan village and a jungle cat reserve in Ecuador's Chocó rainforest.
Rosa and Derek live, write, ski, and cycle in the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia.
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Cuba
Unspun (non-fiction) |
The
Sweetest Gift |
The
Woman She Was (fiction) |
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Far
From Botany Bay(fiction) |
All
That Glitters Produced by the West Kootenay Repertory Players at the Miners' Hall, Rossland BC,for Dinner Theater in Trail BC, and at the West Kootenay Drama Festival, Nelson BC, 1987 |
Lost
Goat Lane (middle reader fiction) |
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The
Goatnappers(middle reader fiction) |
"Wild We" (personal essay) Women's Voices, April 2002 |
The
Last Wild Place (middle reader fiction) |
"Populist President" (Interview with Guyana president Cheddi Jagan) In These Times, Aug 23 1993 |
Wild
Spirits,
(young adult fiction) |
"Kris Kristofferson" (Interview) The Progressive, September 1991 |
Dangerous
Places: Travels on the Edge |
"Children of Ciudad Romero" (El Salvador) Malibu Surfside News, June 13, 1991 |
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"Guyana: Where Libraries are an Endangered Species" Library Journal, April 15, 1990 |
Cuba's
Best Beaches (travel
guide) |
"Innocent Abroad" (Argentina/Chile) The Progressive, August 1989 |
Cycling
Cuba (travel
guide) |
"Suriname: In Dutch, Out of Touch" In These Times, May 24, 1989 |
Rossland:
the First 100 Years |
"Epitath for a Light Painter" Omaha Sun, December 16, 1981 |
The
Struggle: A Brief History of Local Labour |
"Churches
and Economic Justice" (book review) Journal of Ecumenical Studies, |
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"Mexico: How to Educate a Politician" Los Angeles Times, October 31, 1976 |
Small
Wildcats: Keeping Them Alive (guide to exotic cat care), published by: Coddington Veterinary Clinic, Santa Rosa CA |
"Coffee Growers Brew Up a Revolution" Los Angeles Times, July 27, 1975 |
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