Contributor
Jill Christman
Jill Christman is a 2020 NEA Prose Fellow and the author of two memoirs, Darkroom: A Family Exposure (winner of the AWP Prize for CNF) and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. Her essays have appeared in magazines such as Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Iron Horse Literary Review, Longreads, and O, The Oprah Magazine. A senior editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and executive producer of the podcast Indelible: Campus Sexual Violence, she teaches at Ball State University.
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Recent Writing
Close Read: Jaquira Díaz
Award-winning memoirist Jaquira Díaz uses the first-person plural to show us what it means to belong to a place.Issue 78
Spinning
For years, Jill Christman has been waiting for her long-lost lover to communicate with her from beyond the grave. Finally, he walks into her early-morning exercise class, setting her world awhirl.True Story, Issue #12
Completely Naked
A creative writing professor finds strength in allowing vulnerability in the classroomIssue 67
The Eleven-Minute Crib Nap
Babies don’t cut deals, and right now my tapping keyboard sounds like the clicking heels of an efficient secretary leading the negotiators into the boardroom. The last thing I want to do is engage.Oh, Baby!
