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Jordan Salama is a writer covering culture and the environment in the Americas. His essays and stories have appeared in National Geographic, New York Magazine, The New York Times and other publications. An American writer of Argentine, Syrian, and Iraqi Jewish descent, he is the author of Every Day the River Changes, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2021, and the 2022 Princeton “Pre-Read,” and Stranger in the Desert, forthcoming in February 2024. He graduated from Princeton University in 2019 and has been based, in recent years, between New York and Buenos Aires. In his free time, he enjoys jamming on the piano and guitar with his younger brothers, playing soccer, and kayaking in the waters of NYC.