Name: Jill Talbot Author Reading
Start: 2024-11-14T19:00:00-04:00
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
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.