Essayist & Writer

Jill Talbot

Writer in Residence: Monday, March 31 to Friday, April 4
Public Reading & Conversation: Tuesday, April 1 – 7:00 pm – Gorecki Center, CSB
Craft Talk: Thursday, April 3 – 4:30 pm – Quad 264, SJUPulitzer Prize Finalist

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 The Best American Essays annual series. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of North Texas.