Name: Jill Talbot Author Reading
Start: 2024-11-14T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Kretschmer Recital Hall Grand Rapids, M

Jill Talbot will read from her work on November 14, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. in the Kretschmer Recital Hall in the Art & Music Center on the campus of Aquinas College. This event is free and open to the public. You can register for the event here: https://shorturl.at/XHsy5
Free parking is available in the Sturrus Lot off of Fulton Street.
Jill Talbot is the author of The Last Year, Winner of the 2023 Wandering Aengus Press Editor’s Prize in Nonfiction, a collection of essays based on her 2019-2020 Paris Review Daily column about her daughter’s last year at home before leaving for college. She’s also the author of Loaded: Women and Addiction, a collection of personal essays, and The Way We Weren’t: A Memoir. Her short story collection, A Distant Town, won The Florida Review’s Jeanne C. Leiby Award in 2021.
Talbot’s essays have appeared in AGNI, Brevity, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Lit Mag, River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction, and Southwest Review, among others. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of North Texas.