Jordan Blum is an Associate Editor at
PopMatters, holds an MFA in Creative Writing, and is the founder/Editor-in-Chief of
The Bookends Review, an independent creative arts journal. He specializes in progressive rock/metal and also writes for
The Big Takeover,
Paste,
Progression Magazine,
Metal Injection,
The Prog Report,
PROG, and
Classic Rock Society Magazine, among others. Finally, he records his own crazy ideas under the pseudonym
Neglected Spoon. When he's not focused on any of that, he teaches English courses at various colleges. Feel free to contact him via
email,
Facebook, and
Twitter.