Hillary Leftwich is the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (CCM Press, 2019 and Agape Editions, 2023 new edition), a winner of Entropy's Best Fiction Book, and Aura (Future Tense Books and Blackstone Audio Publishing, 2022), winner of the Reader's Choice Award for Big Other and included in Buzz Feed's "17 Recent and Upcoming Books from Indie Publishers You Need to Read." She has published or has work forthcoming in The Sun, Santa Fe Writers Project, The Rumpus, Denver Quarterly, and other publications. She has work included in Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Wig Leaf's Top Fifty list. She has written reviews for High Country News, Heavy Feather Review, and others. She teaches creative writing at The University of Denver, Colorado College, Unity Environmental University, the University of Maryland, and Lighthouse Writers, a local nonprofit. She owns Alchemy Author Services and Writing Workshop where she edits professionally and helps facilitate accessible writing workshops for the community. She is an active judge for the Colorado Book Awards and has served as a judge for the James Yaffe Prize in fiction and The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in poetry. She has been awarded scholarships for The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Margaret Randall Scholarship, and Voices for the West Writing Workshop. She teaches Tarot and Tarot writing workshops focusing on strengthening divination abilities and writing. Find her www.hillaryleftwich.com.