Gord is nłeʔkepmx, member of the Lytton First Nation, and has earned an MA in English Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Windsor (2020). He also completed his BA (Hon) from the University of Windsor in 2018, almost 30 years after he started his post secondary education.

He shares his Kingsville, Ontario home with his partner of 12 years and a psychotically possessive cat. This community is well-suited to a quiet, writerly life, and a far cry from the often chaotic one he led as a mainly urban, mixed-blood nłeʔkepmx, prior to the life-altering accident that has left him with fibromyalgia and a limp. He enjoys watching the butterflies and birds cavort and feed in the back garden, but wishes the bully-birds would move along and leave the cardinals, downy and red-headed woodpeckers, and purple and house finches alone.

Gord’s work has appeared in Hamilton Arts & Letters, FreeFall Magazine, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, Our Stories Literary Journal, Prism International, ndnCountry, Offset 17, Exile Quarterly, and the anthologies Bawaajigan: Stories of Power, and Food of My People from Exile Editions. His work has earned a number of prizes, including first place in the 2020 FreeFall Magazine short fiction contest and 2013John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award. Palimpsest Press released his first novel, GG 2021 Literary Awards finalist, Home Waltz, in the fall of 2020.