Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of several collections of poetry as well as the New York Times bestselling novel Hausfrau. Her work has appeared in dozens of journals including Poetry, The Christian Century, Image, and The Rumpus, and has been included in several anthologies including The Best American Erotic Poems and two editions of the annual Best American Poetry anthology. A core faculty member of the UCR Palm Desert Low Residency MFA program, she is currently working on a new collection of poems and a second novel.

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