I’m Maya, a working-class writer and storyteller living in Mid-Wales. I write fiction, memoir and stories about the Dragon who lives on my roof.
‘A curse on being ordinary! Wrong is not her name. Her name is Maya Jordan. She is a noisy woman and we should fear her.’
– Michael Sheen
‘Funny as hell and full of fight. Maya’s voice is the real deal.’
– Daisy May Cooper
My memior CHOPSY – The Resistance Tales of a Working-class Woman published by September Publishing is out now.
A sharply funny, furious and rousing account of a life lived in triumphant opposition to the limitations and systemic inequalities of a working-class woman’s life.
Underestimated and overlooked at each stage and age, Maya Jordan’s ambition and resilience was born in the library and nourished by reading and the Open University – through early motherhood, precarious housing, caring responsibilities and chronic disability – to a point where she finally seizes her right to write.
Buy my book: linktr.ee/chopsymayajordan
When I am not writing, I’m mostly being dragged around a field by my mad dog, Bertie.
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Events, workshops and storytelling
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