Join authors and academics Jill Christman and Mark Neely at the Main Library on October 28th from 6pm until as they read from our new books\, poetry (LATE STAGE) \;and memoir (THE HEART FOLDS EARLY) res pectively\, and hang around for a Q&\;A
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\nJill Ch ristman and Mark Neely met in the MFA program at the University of Alabama in the late 90s. For over two decades\, they have written and taught in t he Creative Writing Program at Ball State University in Muncie\, Indiana\, where they raised two amazing kids (both of whom grew up to be English ma jors) and co-edit River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. Between them\, they&rsquo\;ve earned two fellowships from the National Endowment f or the Arts and published eight books&mdash\;four in nonfiction and four i n poetry. \;
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\nJill Christman is the author of T he Heart Folds Early: A Memoir (released March 2026 from the University of Nebraska Press). Christman&rsquo\;s other books include If This Were Fict ion: A Love Story in Essays (2023 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner)\, Darkroo m: A Family Exposure (winner of AWP Prize for CNF)\, and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. Her essays have appeared in many anthologies and in magazines such as Brevity\,Creative Nonfiction\, Fourth Genre\, Iro n Horse Literary Review\, Longreads\, and O\, The Oprah Magazine. A 2020 N EA Literature Fellow\, she teaches at Ball State University and serves as co-editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and Beautiful Things (a weekly online magazine of micro nonfiction). Visit her at jillch ristman.com \;
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\nMark Neely is the author of Bea sts of the Hill and Dirty Bomb\, both from Oberlin College Press\, and Tic ker\, which won the Idaho Prize for Poetry and was published by Lost Horse Press. His fourth book\, Late Stage\, was published by Jacar Press in 202 4. His awards include an NEA Literature Fellowship\, an Indiana Individual Artist grant\, and the FIELD Poetry Prize\, and his poems have appeared i n Gulf Coast\, New England Review\, Indiana Review\, Poetry Northwest\, Pl eiades\, and elsewhere\, He earned his BA from the University of Illinois and his MFA from the University of Alabama. He is a professor of English a t Ball State University and co-editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfict ion Narrative. Visit him at markneely.com
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