Hillary Leftwich is the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (CCM Press/The Accomplices 2019), which is one of The Accomplices Best Sellers, a finalist for Big Other’s Best Fiction Book of 2019, and voted as one of Entropy’s Best Fiction Books of 2019. Her hybrid memoir, Aura, is forthcoming from Future Tense Books in 2022. She won the C.C.I.R.A’s Young Writer’s Award in 1995 while in high school and went on to earn her MFA in fiction and poetry from The Mile High MFA at Regis University. She is a Kenyon Review scholarship recipient in 2021. Her writing can be found in both print and online in The Rumpus, Entropy, The Missouri Review, Denver Quarterly, Hobart, and numerous other journals both in print and online. She is the founder and owner of ☿ Al·che·my Author Services & Workshop, curates/hosts At the Inkwell Denver, and teaches creative writing at Lighthouse Writers. She reads/selects/judges for The Colorado Book Awards and lives in Denver with her partner, son, and cat, Larry. Find more of her writing at hillaryleftwich.com