essays in journals
"Family Portrait: An Essay in Third Person." Superstition Review (Issue 8, Fall 2011).
“Bird Girls.” Willow Springs. 68 (Fall 2011): 62-65.
“Nineteen Weeks and One Day.” r.c.v.r.y. quarterly literary journal. 6.3(Summer 2011). Reprint.
“Five Fives.” MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine. Spring 2011.
“The Little Box.” MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine. 8 (Summer/Fall 2009): 52-54.
“The River Cave.” River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. 11.1 (Fall 2009): 9-18. *Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Paddling the Middle Fork: A Love Story in Low Water.” The River Teeth Reader 10.1&2 (Fall 2008/Spring 2009 “best-of-the-best” ten-year anniversary double issue): 234-44. Reprint.
“Tango, Like the Dance.” Descant. 40: 1 (Spring 2009): 50-51.
* featured on Carole Giangrande's podcast Words to Go in March 2010.
“Burned.” Conclave: A Journal of Character 1 (Fall 2008): 48-49. (audio recording at www.conclavejournal.com) *Conclave is also for sale on Amazon
“The Sloth.” Brevity. 26 (Hot & Cold Issue): Winter 2008.
“The Margarita Game.” Barrelhouse. 5: Winter 2008.
“Nineteen Weeks and One Day.” Under the Sun. 21.1 (Summer 2007): 81-84.
“Paddling the Middle Fork: A Love Story in Low Water.” River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. Spring 2007): 6-16.
* Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Weaning Ella.” Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers. 8.2 (Spring 2007): 28-31.
“The Allergy Diaries.” Harpur Palate. 6: 2 (Winter 2007): 100-121.
* Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“Bringing on Baby.” Literary Mama. Spring 2007.
“A Stone Pear.” The Fourth River. 3 (Autumn 2006): 60-63.
“Three Takes on a Jump.” Mississippi Review. Special Summer 2006 Issue: Partly True (2,000 words).
“Burned Images.” River City 21.2 (2001): 60-68.
articles in magazines
“Get Into Insects: Unlocking the Door to a Miniature Universe of Wonder.” Scholastic’s Parent & Child Magazine. June 2010: 70.
“Let’s Go Outside: Getting into Insects.” Scholastic’s Parent & Child Magazine expanded online “Hot Feature.” June 2010.
“The Hills are Alive.” Wondertime. July 2008.
essays in books
“Three Takes on a Jump” and “The Allergy Diaries.” Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers. Ed. Kate Hopper. Berkeley, CA: Viva Editions, forthcoming Spring 2012. Reprint.
“Chewing Band-Aids: One Memoirist’s Take on Telling the Truth.” Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family. Ed. Joy Castro. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. In press.
“The Sloth.” [Reprint] Literature: the Human Experience: Reading and Writing. Ed. Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz, and Samuel Cohen. NY: Bedford/St. Martin, 2010.
“Weaning Ella.” Unbuttoned: Women tell the truth about the pains, pleasures and politics of breastfeeding. [Reprint] Ed. Dana Sullivan and Maureen Connelly. Boston, MA: Harvard Common Press, 2009. 206-213.
*Click here to listen to Jill read "Weaning Ella" for the radio show and blog Mom Enough, November 2011, alongside fellow authors Sonja Huber and Kate Hopper.>
“The Very Rule.” Rules of Thumb. Ed. Michael Martone and Susan Neville. Cincinatti, OH:F & W Publications, 2006. 63-66.
interviews in books, journals, or blogs
In Sonya Huber’s The “Backwards” Research Guide for Writers. Forthcoming Fall 2011 (London: Equinox Books).
"Awful Interview: Jill Christman" with Vouched, October 4, 2011.
“Interview with Jill Christman.” r.c.v.r.y. quarterly literary journal. 6.3(Summer 2011).
“Notes on ‘Bird Girls’.” Willow Springs online (Spring 2011).
“Low-Res, High Motivation: An Interview with Jill Christman by Cathy Day.” Ball State English Blog.
