Lucas Jordan grew up in Burekup in Western Australia, where he completed his Bachelor of Arts. He completed a Diploma of Education at the University of Queensland, followed by a Masters in Aboriginal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and he completed his PhD at the Australian National University. Lucas has taught history to undergraduate students at Deakin and Monash universities and is currently a teacher at Western English Language School, a secondary school for new arrivals and refugees in Melbourne. He is the author of Stealth Raiders: A few daring men in 1918. Lucas lives in Lara, Victoria, with his wife and two sons.