Mark Sebastian Jordan

Mark Sebastian Jordan is an award-winning playwright, poet, music critic, historian, and storyteller who lives near Loudonville in Appalachian Ohio. He has received awards from the Ohio Arts Council, the Ohio Poetry Association, the Associated Press, the Richland County Foundation, the Ohio Theatre Alliance, as well as the Jesse Stuart Memorial Award, the Gerald B. Rice Theater Award, the Florence B. Allen Literary Award, and the Case Reserve Review Award, among others. He has been seen on such television programs as Ghost Hunters, Mysteries at the Museum, My Ghost Story, and House of the Unknown. He writes a weekly local history column, "History Knox," for KnoxPages.com and has performed extensively throughout Ohio as a storyteller, living history reenactor, and poet.