Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of the
1999 Bakeless Prize winner in poetry, Heaven, and the 2005
collection of sonnets, Oh Forbidden. She has published in
journals both religious and secular, both domestic and foreign, both
well-known and rabidly obscure including The Christian Century,
No Tell Motel, 32 Poems, Rhino, Image, and
Poetry. In 2003, she was awarded an NEA literature grant for
which she is still insanely grateful. She has particular affection for
the sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay, the poems of Simon Armitage, the
mystical theology of Simone Weil, the music of Nick Cave and the Bad
Seeds, and the office politics of Wernam-Hogg. Occasionally,
she plays with her food.
Jill lives in Zürich, Switzerland.
© Jill Alexander Essbaum 2006.
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