Jordannah Elizabeth Graham-Mayer

Jordannah Elizabeth Graham-Mayer
Elizabeth at Red Emma's book store in Baltimore
Born (1986-10-16) October 16, 1986 (age 40)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
OccupationsAuthor, journalist, lecturer and musician
Websitejewriting.com

Jordannah Elizabeth Graham-Mayer (born October 16, 1986) is an American musician, journalist, lecturer, music critic, author and screenwriter.

She is the author of She Raised Her Voice! 50 Black Women Who Sang Their Way into Music History (2021, Hachette Book Group), which won a Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) Jazz Award, and A Child’s Introduction to Hip-Hop (2023, Workman). She has written for and contributed to outlets including the New York Amsterdam News, NPR affiliates, Village Voice, DownBeat, Bandcamp Daily, and others, and has taught music business at The New School's College of Performing Arts.

Career

Graham-Mayer started her professional writing career in 2013 with bylines in Vice Magazine, Nerve.com and Bitch Media. In October 2013, she became a regular contributing writer and entertainment reporter for the New York Amsterdam News. In subsequent years, she wrote for a number of Bay Area publications including San Francisco Bay Guardian, East Bay Express, and SF Weekly, and other outlets including LA Weekly, Ms. Magazine, PopSugar, and NPR Music.

Her writing consists of interviews, music journalism, personal essays, articles on healing in relationships and trauma, and literary journalism.

She has taught writing and journalism workshops at the Maryland Institute College of Art and Center for New Music in San Francisco and lectured at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and De Montfort University in Leicester, England. She was a guest journalist at Harvard University's Black Lives Matter: Music, Race, and Justice Conference in February 2017 and has also moderated panels on literature and film at the Baltimore Book Festival and Creative Alliance in Baltimore, Maryland. In April 2021, she was a keynote speaker and panelist at the Columbia University's Music Scholarship Conference.

Graham-Mayer has taught music business at the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.

Books

References

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  4. ↑ Elizabeth, Jordannah (June 3, 2022). "My guide to publishing a JJA Book of the Year – Jazz Journalists Association News". news.jazzjournalists.org. Retrieved September 2, 2025.
  5. ↑ Elizabeth, Jordannah (December 5, 2022). A Child's Introduction to Hip-Hop. Workman Kids. ISBN 978-0-7624-8103-3.
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  8. ↑ Hip-Hop Duo THEESatisfaction Talk Beats, Queerness, and Cosmos"
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  12. ↑ Davis, Francis (January 5, 2019). "The 2018 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll". NPR.org. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
  13. ↑ Elizabeth, Jordannah (May 9, 2018). "Kenyan Court Ruling Demands Accountability in the Global Maternal Health Crisis Facing Black Women - Ms. Magazine Blog". Ms. Magazine Blog. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  14. ↑ Elizabeth, Jordannah. "Mahogany L. Browne describes the making of The BreakBeat Poets Volume 2: Black Girl Magic". Chicago Reader. Archived from the original on October 30, 2019. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  15. ↑ "Inaugural Symposium". Global South Center. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  16. ↑ "A Rumination of Black Experimental Music Jordannah Elizabeth". Center for New Music. October 4, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  17. ↑ Rogers, Harry (October 25, 2016). "Breaking the mould: American music journalist visits De Montfort University". Leicestershire Press. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  18. ↑ "Black experimental artists shine at Harvard BLM conference". amsterdamnews.com. February 16, 2017. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  19. ↑ "Baltimore Bookfestival 2018 :: EVENT DETAIL". www.baltimorebookfestival.com. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  20. ↑ "Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind: The Carolina Chocolate Drops' Story | Creative Alliance". www.creativealliance.org. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  21. ↑ "Columbia Music Scholarship Conference". Columbia University Department of Music. December 10, 2016. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  22. ↑ wilburw (November 3, 2021). "New Faculty Members at the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music are Making Waves in the Classroom and Beyond". The New School News. Retrieved September 2, 2025.