Bio
About the AuthorEliot Jordan is a professional tea taster, singer-songwriter, and writer. After a lifetime cupping and buying tea, recording and performing his songs--even composing two musicals--he's focused on novel-length works and short stories in the fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction spaces.
His debut fantasy work, THREE TURNS OF THE SUN, is the story of a woman with magical, musical, synesthetic abilities who must find her purpose in a patriarchal, warring world. This novel blends his love of music, literature, history, and the cultures of Asia's tea-growing countryside.
His newest work is a sci-fi fantasy titled IN THE ARMS OF THE MOON in which a fighting nun, a gambling-addicted baron, and a polymath monk risk a gravity-shifting expedition to save a precious icon from the Moon. The characters encounter a planetary divinity while the dealing with inter-planetary physics.
Eliot draws inspiration from world travel, reading and music, and hiking all over Northern California. He lives with his family in his native Berkeley.
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Publications: Music & Lyrics:
- And Then Tomorrow — 12 songs — 2018 release
- Rise — 14 songs — 2013 release
- Here's Why — 10 songs — 2000 release
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves — performed by Kairos Youth Choir 2002
- Judge, World Tea Championship — 2007 to 2018
- Tea Advisory Councilmember, UC Davis Global Tea Initiative — 2017 to 2024
- U.S. Tea Association, Board Member — 2024-