About Jillian

Jillian Barnet is a Best American essayist and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. Her work explores family in its many iterations, the craft of writing, and transplantation to a rural farming community. Jillian is a frequent contributor to magazines and anthologies, including Best American Essays, The 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 an array of opinionated animals.