Lynn Haraldson, Author and Writing Mentor
Heidi Skurat Harris — Tenure and Promotion 2016
Description: Jill Christman is the author of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (2022) and two memoirs, Darkroom: A Family Exposure and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Ball State University, a senior editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, and executive producer for the podcast Indelible: Campus Sexual Violence.”
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“Christman has great talent. [Her memoir] is a joy. Read it, and see how many bits of life come clear.” — Barry Sanders
Jill Christman is the author of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays , two memoirs ( Darkroom: A Family Exposure and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood ), and essays in magazines such as Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, and Iron Horse Literary Review. A 2020 NEA Fellow and senior editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, she teaches at Ball State University.
My new book is out! I’ve been writing essays for over fifteen years, and it’s been a glorious ride, but I’d never put out a collection of just Jill Christman essays between two covers …
Lynn Haraldson, Author and Writing Mentor
Heidi Skurat Harris — Tenure and Promotion 2016