Jill Talbot is the author of The Last Year: Essays, based on her year-long column in The Paris Review Daily and Winner of the Wandering Aengus Editor’s Prize in Nonfiction, as well as The Way We Weren’t: A Memoir and Loaded: Women and Addiction, a collection of personal essays. Her essays have appeared in AGNI, Brevity, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Lit Mag, River Teeth, Southwest Review, The Rumpus, and The Paris Review Daily, among others. She is Associate Professor and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of North Texas.

Website: jilltalbot.net

Publications

• The Last Year: Essays , Wandering Aengus Press (2023)
• The Way We Weren't: A Memoir , Soft Skull Press (2015)
• Loaded: Women and Addiction , Seal Press (2007)
• A Distant Town: Stories , University of Florida Press (2022)

Employment

• Associate Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at University of North Texas

Degrees

• Doctoral Degree in American Literature and Film from Texas Tech University
• Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Unviersity of Colorado

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction