On her website, she refers to her work as “Christian and Erotic Poetry.” (jillalexanderessbaum.com). Her debut collection of poems, Heaven (2000), won the 1999 Bakeless Prize. Other collections include Harlot (2007), Necropolis (2008), and the long-poem chapbook The Devastation (2009). Her work has been included in the anthologies Best American Poetry and Best American Erotic Poems (2008). She has won two NEA literature fellowships and is a member of the Low Residency MFA faculty at the University of California, Riverside. Hausfrau is her first novel.