Jill Alexander Essbaum (born 1971 in Bay City, Texas, United States) is an American poet, writer, and professor.

Essbaum's poetry features puns, wordplay and dark humor, often mixed with religious and erotic imagery.

Publishers Weekly notes, of Hausfrau:"The realism of Anna’s dilemmas and the precise construction of the novel are marvels of the form, and Essbaum chooses her words carefully.

"[2]Agha Shahid Ali wrote: "Only the best writers put us right at the site of myth and thus assert, for us, our right to be part of the beginning and end of any world, any heaven.

That Jill Alexander Essbaum does it so quietly, so delicately, and puts herself, and us, at the center of Heaven itself leads me only to envy.