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.