Thursday, April 9, 2026 (Pittenger Student Center, Multipurpose Room + Billiards Room), 7:30-9 p.m.
Please join us for the hometown launch of co-editor Jill Christman’s new memoir, The Heart Folds Early, & the 27th birthday of Ball State’s top-ranked national literary magazine–River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. Find us in the basement of the Student Center for Jill’s reading & a premiere video montage of RT readers in the Multipurpose Room followed by snacks, signings, and pool in the Billiards room.
Jill Christman’s third memoir, The Heart Folds Early, is about what it means to make a choice—and was released by the University of Nebraska Press on March 1, 2026. Christman’s other books include If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. A 2020 NEA Literature fellow, she teaches at Ball State University and serves as co-editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and editor of Beautiful Things (a weekly online magazine of micro essays—subscribe for free!). Visit her at jillchristman.com.