Jill Talbot is the author of The Last Year: Essays (Winner of Wandering Aengus Press Editor’s Prize, August 2023). She’s also the author of The Way We Weren’t: A Memoir (Soft Skull, 2015) and Loaded: Women and Addiction (Seal Press, 2007), the co-editor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non)Fictions Come Together (U of Texas Press, 2008), and the editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction (Iowa, 2012). Her craft book, The Essay Form(s), will be published by Columbia University Press in 2024. She is the winner of The Florida Review’s 2021 Jeanne Leiby Chapbook Award Winner for her short story collection, A Distant Town (2022). Her writing has appeared in journals such as AGNI, Brevity, Colorado Review, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, LitMag, The Paris Review Daily, and The Rumpus and has been recognized six times in The Best American Essays. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of North Texas.