The Witch of Mansfield

Mark Sebastian Jordan is a writer and storyteller who lives in the central highlands of Ohio. His book The Ceely Rose Murders at Malabar Farm was published by The History Press in 2021. His column "History Knox" appears weekly at KnoxPages.com. Jordan received an excellence award from the Ohio Arts Council in 2018 for his music criticism at Seen & Heard International, MusicWeb International, the WordPress blog Borderlands and elsewhere. Widely published as a poet, Jordan was most recently featured in I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing: Ohio's Appalachian Voices . Also an actor and director for more than thirty years, Jordan appeared as an extra in the classic film The Shawshank Redemption .