Jill Talbot is the author of The Way We Weren’t: A Memoir and Loaded: Women and Addiction, the co-editor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non)Fictions Come Together, and the editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in journals such as AGNI, Brevity, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Ecotone, Longreads, The Normal School, The Paris Review Daily, The Rumpus, and Slice Magazine and listed as Notable several times in Best American Essays. Her story, “Railroad Blues,” was the Most Read in Little Fiction in 2018. She teaches in the creative writing program at University of North Texas. (photo credit: Lisa Vining)