Lucas Jordan grew up in Burekup in Western Australia.

He holds a PhD in history from the Australian National University. Lucas spent more than a decade teaching and researching in the Kimberley, Cape York and central Australia, which ingrained in him a deep respect for the Australian bush and its people. He worked for Amnesty International as a researcher and fieldworker and co-wrote Amnesty’s global report ‘“The land holds us”: Aboriginal peoples’ right to their traditional homelands in the Northern Territory’, which was based on six years of collaboration and camping with the Alyawarr and Anmatyerr people of the Northern Territory.

Lucas is currently a leading teacher at Western English Language School, a secondary school for new arrivals and refugees in Melbourne and occasionallhy consults on history projects. He is the author of The Chipilly Six: unsung heores of the Great War (2023) and Stealth Raiders: A few daring men in 1918, (2017). His current historical research and writing is focussed on stories of inter-cultural exchange, or the “meeting of minds”, in central Australia. Lucas lives in Lara, Victoria, with his wife and two sons.