Jordan Phillips grew up in Northern California watching Star Trek: The Next Generation and reruns of The Jetsons. Writing a utopian-fiction book allowed her to combine her passion for technology and the future with her obsession with Paris's illustrious past.
Phillips enjoys being a flâneuse of the world and studying popular culture. When not traveling, she can usually be found at home with her husband and daughter in New York City or lingering at a café on the Rive Gauche near her apartment off Place St-Sulpice.
Phillips holds a master's degree in fashion marketing and management from the École Supérieure des Arts et Techniques de la Mode (ESMOD) in Paris and a bachelor's degree in journalism from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly). She is also the author of Inspired by Paris: Why Borrowing from the French Is Better Than Being French.