Jill Alexander Essbaum

Jill Alexander Essbaum is an American poet, writer, and professor. Her most recent collections are the full-length manuscripts Harlot and Necropolis. Essbaum's poetry features puns, wordplay and dark humor, often mixed with religious and erotic imagery. She currently teaches at the University of California Riverside Palm Desert Graduate Center in the Masters of Creative Writing Graduate Program. Essbaum's debut novel Hausfrau was published in March, 2015.