Jill Alexander Essbaum

Jill Alexander Essbaum (2015)

Jill Alexander Essbaum (born 1971 in Bay City , Texas ) is an American author.

Life

Jill Alexander Essbaum studied at the MAR Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin , Texas and wrote a thesis on the preacher Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944) in 2000 . She lived with her husband, who studied at the CG Jung Institute in Küsnacht , for some time as an expat in Zurich . Essbaum teaches creative writing at the University of California, Riverside . She published several volumes of poetry, and individual poems were included in the annual anthologies The Best American Poetry . Her first novel was published in 2015 under the title Housewife and is an Anna Karenina story in today's Switzerland.

Essbaum lives in Austin.

Works

• The seduction of Aimee Semple McPherson . Austin, Tex., 2000
• Heaven . Poems. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000
• Contributions to poems in: Oh Forbidden . San Antonio, Tex. : Pecan Grove Press, 2005
• Poetry contributions in: The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel . Lulu.com, 2006
• Harlot . Poems. Reston, Va .: No Tell Books, 2007
• Poems in: The Best American Erotic Poems . Scribner 2008
• Necropolis . Poems. Houston, TX: NeoNuma Arts, 2008
• The Devastation . Poems. San Diego, Calif. : Cooper Dillon Books, 2009
• Housewife . Novel. New York, NY: Random House, 2015
  • Housewife . Novel. Translation Eva Bonné . Cologne: Eichborn, 2015

literature

• Matthias Daum: Madame Bovary from Dietlikon , review, in: Die Zeit , March 30, 2015
• Britta Heidemann: All unhappy Annas are similar to each other , review, in: Die Literäre Welt , October 17, 2015, p. 7

Web links

• Literature by and about Jill Alexander Essbaum in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Jill Alexander Essbaum in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jill Alexander Essbaum at perlentaucher.de
• Jill Alexander Essbaum , at University of California, Riverside