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Posts by: Hillary Leftwich

Voices on Addiction: Vessel

By Hillary Leftwich

November 15th, 2021

We both can disappear in our own ways, can’t we?

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Tags: addiction, alcohol, alcohol use disorder, alcoholism, brothers, brothers and sisters, Cassandra, childhood, childhood home, divorce, family, grief, Hillary Leftwich, home, loss, siblings, Voices on Addiction

On Tragedy and Strength: Making Space for Our Stories

By Hillary Leftwich

February 18th, 2020

I love that—working towards not having regret, in art and in life.

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Tags: American Indian, autofiction, Buckskin Cocaine, Crazy Horse's Girlfriend, domestic violence, Erika T Wurth, experimental, film industry, gender stereotypes, Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock, Hillary Leftwich, Hollywood, Indigenous, marie calloway, memoir, motherhood, Native American, Native Americans, publishing industry, Racism, sexism, single mother, single motherhood, violence against women

Hillary Leftwich is the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (CCM Press/The Accomplices 2019) and Aura, a hybrid memoir forthcoming from Future Tense Books in 2022. She is the founder and owner of Alchemy Author Services & Workshop, teaches at Lighthouse Writers, and is a professor at The Professional Creative Writing Program at the University of Denver. She also teaches Tarot and Tarot writing workshops focusing on strengthening divination abilities as well as writing and is a registered member of the Tarosophy Tarot Association and The Monroe Institute and is a student at The College of Psychic Studies. She is a Kenyon Review Workshop alumni and scholarship recipient in 2021. Her writing can be found in both print and online in Best Small Fictions (2021), The Rumpus, Entropy, The Missouri Review, and numerous other journals. She lives in Denver with her partner, son, and cat, Larry. Find more of her writing at hillaryleftwich.com and her author editing services at alchemyauthorservices.com.

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