Hillary Leftwich lives in Denver with her son in “The Murder House,” a registered historical landmark turned affordable housing. There may or may not be ghosts. She earned her MFA in fiction and poetry at the Mile High MFA program at Regis University. She is an editor at Heavy Feather Review and curates At the Inkwell Denver, a monthly reading series. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, The Review Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Matter Press, Hobart, WhiskeyPaper, NANO Fiction, Monkeybicycle, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Sundog Lit, Heavy Feather Review, Literary Orphans, Occulum, and others. Her first book, Ghosts are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock, is forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms (CCM) in October of 2019. Find her at hillaryleftwich.com or on Twitter @hillaryleftwich.
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