Jill Talbot

Jill Talbot (born 1970) is an American essayist and writer of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Talbot is the author of Loaded: Women and Addiction (Seal Press, 2001), and The Way We Weren't (Soft Skull Press, 2015), co-editor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non)fictions Come Together (University of Texas Press, 2008), and the editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction (University of Iowa Press, 2012). Jill Talbot was born in Dallas, Texas in 1970. She earned her PhD in Contemporary American Literature and Film at Texas Tech University. She went on to earn her second Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has served as a writer-in-residence and English professor at Columbia College Chicago, and an English faculty member at St. Lawrence University, Oklahoma State University, Southern Utah University, and New Mexico Highlands University. Talbot's work has appeared in journals such as Brevity, DIAGRAM, Ecotone, The Paris Review Daily, The Pinch, The Rumpus, and Under the Sun. She has a daughter named Indie (born 2002) and currently resides in Texas, working as an Associate Professor of Creative Nonfiction at University of North Texas. The Way We Weren't. Soft Skull Press. 2015. Loaded: Women and Addiction. Seal Press. 2007. Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction. University of Iowa Press. 2012. The Art of Friction: Where (Non)fictions Come Together. University of Texas Press. 2008. With Charles Blackstone. "Stranded." Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction. W.W. Norton & Company. 2015. "Again and Again." Carve. Fall Premiere Issue. 2014. "Wine List." PANK. Issue 10. Spring 2014. "Stalled." The Pinch. Issue 34.1. Spring 2014. "Lost Calls." Barrelhouse Essay Anthology. Barrelhouse Books. 2013. "The Man in the Photograph." South Loop Review. Volume 14. Fall 2012. "Driving I-15." Ecotone. Fall/Winter 2006. "My Two Countries." Under the Sun. 2005. "Viva Terlingua!" RE:AL. Fall 2004. "My Grandmother's Flowers." Cimarron Review. Issue 148. Summer 2004.