Jill Christman Associate Professor MFA, University of Alabama Office: Robert Bell 270 Phone: (765) 285-8534 E-mail: jcchristman@bsu.edu NOTE: on leave academic year 2007-2008.

Area of Specialization

Creative nonfiction

Publications

Book

Darkroom: A Family Exposure (University of Georgia Press, 2002), Winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction

Recent Essays

• “Tango, Like the Dance.” Descant. Forthcoming Winter 2008.
• “The Margarita Game.” Barrelhouse. Issue 5: Winter 2008.
• “The Sloth.” Brevity. 26 (Hot & Cold Issue): Winter 2008. http://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/
• “Nineteen Weeks and One Day.” Under the Sun. 21.1 (Summer 2007): 81-84.
• “Paddling the Middle Fork: A Love Story.” River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. 8.2 (Spring 2007): 6-16.
• “Weaning Ella.” Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers. 8.2 (Spring 2007): 28-31.  
• “The Allergy Diaries.” Harpur Palate. 6.2 (Winter 2007): 100-121. * Nominated for a Pushcart Prize 
• “Bringing on Baby.” Literary Mama. Spring 2007 (2,000 words).  
• “A Stone Pear.” The Fourth River. 3 (Autumn 2006): 60-63.
• “Three Takes on a Jump.” Mississippi Review. Special Summer 2006 Issue: Partly True (2,000 words). 
• “The Very Rule.” Rules of Thumb. Ed. Michael Martone and Susan Neville. Cincinatti, OH: F & W Publications, 2006. 63-66.
• “Burned Images.” River City 21.2 (2001): 60-68.

Courses

Graduate: Workshop in Creative Nonfiction Writing, Theory of Creative Writing: Reading & Writing Across the Genres, Teaching English Studies (Creative Writing)

Undergraduate: Creative Nonfiction Writing 1-3, Introduction to Creative Writing