3: A novel by Jill Alexander EssbaumĪnna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno-a banker-and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich. Retrieved 30 October 2017.For readers of Claire Messud and Mary Gaitskill comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning. 'Bruce Covey presents Jill Alexander Essbaum - The Best American Poetry'.'Interview with Jill Alexander Essbaum - Eratosphere'.

^ 'University Press of New England - Bread Loaf Poetry'.

^ 'Fiction Book Review: Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum'.

'A Review: Jill Alexander Essbaum: The Devastation, Necropolis, and Harlot'.

The Best American Erotic Poems (Scribner 2008).

The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel (, 2006).

The Devastation (Cooper Dillon Books, 2009).

She echoes Donne and Plath and riffs on Eliot but has the precise benefit of being alive and full of our time. Palmer, on his literary blog Strong Verse, writes,ĭancing on the edge of her words one finds despair and salvation, often in the same word. Of Essbaum's work in general, the critic G.M. Just a graceful, magical way of taking oneself - and one's bare uncertainties - for granted. For how else can one convincingly transcend the domestic? There is simply no self-congratulation in these poems. That Jill Alexander Essbaum does it so quietly, so delicately, and puts herself, and us, at the center of Heaven itself leads me only to envy. 'Only the best writers put us right at the site of myth and thus assert, for us, our right to be part of the beginning and end of any world, any heaven. 'The realism of Anna’s dilemmas and the precise construction of the novel are marvels of the form, and Essbaum chooses her words carefully.' Essbaum's debut novel Hausfrau (Random House) was published in March, 2015. She currently teaches at the University of California Riverside Palm Desert Graduate Center in the Masters of Creative Writing Graduate Program. Essbaum's poetry features puns, wordplay and dark humor, often mixed with religious and erotic imagery. Her most recent collections are the full-length manuscripts Harlot (No Tell Motel, 2007) and Necropolis (neoNuma Arts, 2008).

Jill Alexander Essbaum (born 1971 in Bay City, Texas, United States) is an American poet, writer, and professor.