Congratulations to Jill Christman, whose longform essay, “Spinning,” is True Story’s Issue #12. Christman’s essay, “Burned Images,” is the lead essay for Scars: An Anthology (Et Alia, 2015). Order your copy of "Spinning" here for $3.95 including shipping.
Jill Christman is author of the AWP-award-winning memoir Darkroom: A Family Exposure and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. Her work is forthcoming in Not That Bad: Dispatches from a Rape Culture, edited by Roxane Gay and Ashley Ford (HarperPerennial), and has appeared in O Magazine, Fourth Genre, Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, Riverteeth, Iron Horse, and elsewhere.
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