Jill Talbot received an MA in Creative Writing from University of Colorado at Boulder, where she was the recipient of the 2002 Jovanovich Prize in Poetry and the 2003 Jovanovich Manuscript Prize. She has a PhD in American Literature. Her work has been published in Under the Sun, Cimarron Review, Blue Mesa Review, Notre Dame Review, and It’s All Good. She is the coeditor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non) Fictions Come Together. She lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma.