Jill Nelson is a promient African-American journalist and novelist. She written several books, including th autobiographical Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience, which won an American Book Award, and is currently Professor of Journalism at the City College of New York.

Jill Nelson Grew up in Harlem, New York, she graduated from the City College of New York and went on to study at the Columbia School of Journalism. Nelson wrote for the Washington Post Magazine when it started and awarded the Washington D.C. Journalist of the Year for her contributions. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Essence, The Nation, Ms., the Chicago Tribune, the Village Voice, USA Today and USA Weekend, and msnbc.com.

Nelson has wrote the autobiographical Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience about her experiences as a black female jounlaist at the Washinton Post. Her next publication Straight, No Chaser: How I Became A Grown-Up Black Woman, also autobiographical, discusses role models for black women.

Her first work of fiction, Sexual Healing, was published in 2003.

List of works

• Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience 1993. Hardback ISBN 1879360241; Softback ISBN 014023716X
• Straight, No Chaser: How I Became A Grown-Up Black Woman. 1997. ISBN 0140277242
• Editor, Police Brutality: An Anthology. 2000. ISBN 0393321630
• Sexual Healing. 2003. ISBN 0972456201
• Finding Martha's Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island. 2005. ISBN 0385505663

Reference

• PBS. Modern Journalists, Jill Nelson