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Author Bio
• Birth—1971
• Where—Bay City, Texas, USA
• Education—University of Texas; University of Houston
• Awards—Bakeless Poetry Prize
• Currently—lives in Austin, Texas
Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of several collections of poetry and her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, as well as its sister anthology, The Best American Erotic Poems, 1800-Present. She is the winner of the Bakeless Poetry Prize and recipient of two NEA literature fellowships. A member of the core faculty at the University of California, Riverside’s Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA program, she lives and writes in Austin, Texas. (From the publisehr .)
Read more about the author on the Poetry Foundation Website.