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 (judged by Quincy Troupe) and the 2003 Jovanovich Manuscript Prize, along with the John Barker Scholarship for Creative Writers and a CU Fellowship. She has a PhD in American Literature from Texas Tech University. Her work has been published in Under the Sun, Cimarron Review, Blue Mesa Review, Notre Dame Review, and It's All Good (Manic D Press). She is the coeditor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non) Fictions Come Together with novelist Charles Blackstone (The University of Texas Press, forthcoming 2008). She lives in Wichita, Kansas.