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Literary Arts Institute

Public Reading & Conversation with Jill Talbot

April 1, 2025
7:00 PM
Gorecki Center, CSB

Jill Talbot, Essayist & Writer

Writer in Residence: Monday, March 31 to Friday, April 4

Craft Talk: Thursday, April 3 – 4:30 pm – Quad 264

Jill Talbot is the author of The Last Year: Essays (Winner of Wandering Aengus Press Editor’s Prize, August 2023), as well as The Way We Weren’t: A Memoir and Loaded: Women and Addiction, a collection of personal essays. Her writing has appeared in literary journals such as AGNI, Brevity, Colorado Review, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Lit Mag, River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction, and The Paris Review Daily and has been recognized seven times in TheBest American Essays annual series. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of North Texas.