About Jillian

Jillian Barnet is a Best American essayist, Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, and teacher of writing. Her work explores the craft of writing, family in its many iterations, and transplantation to a rural farming community. Jillian is a frequent contributor to magazines and anthologies, including Best American Essays, New York Times, HuffPost, New Letters, Under the Sun, Brevity, Journal of the American Medical Association, Image, and Literary Mama, among others.

When she’s not writing or hiking, you can find Jillian in the garden of her 200-year-old farmhouse in the Finger Lakes, surrounded by a growing array of opinionated animals.