Jordan Michael Smith is a Contributing Writer at Salon magazine and a frequent contributor to MSNBC's Lean Forward. His writing has appeared in print or online for the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The Atlantic, Newsweek, Huffington Post, Esquire, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, Slate, Christian Science Monitor, World Affairs Journal, Democracy, Columbia Journalism Review, Dissent, The Weekly Standard, Roll Call, The American Conservative, Tablet, Forward, In These Times, Joint Force Quarterly, The Awl, National Post, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa Sun, Calgary Herald, Western Standard and This Magazine. He has been awarded journalism fellowships from Stanford University, Wesleyan University, and The City University of New York, and he has appeared on many radio and television programs in Canada and the United States. Born in Toronto, he holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario and a Master's Degree from Carleton University. He lives in Washington, D.C. and can be reached at jordanmichaelsmith100@gmail.com.
