Hillary Leftwich is a neurodivergent writer and the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (Agape Editions, 2023, new edition), Aura (Future Tense Books and Blackstone Audio Publishing, 2022), and Saint Dymphna’s Playbook, (forthcoming from Limit Zero, 2025). She owns Alchemy Author Services and Writing Workshop and teaches writing at several universities and colleges along with Lighthouse Writers, a local nonprofit for adults and youth. Her latest work can be found or forthcoming in The Sun, Best Small Fictions, Santa Fe Writers Project, The Rumpus, and Denver Quarterly. On the outskirts of the writing world, she is also a professional tarot reader and speaks with the dead. She lives in Denver.

Feature Image: Polychrome Woodblocks of Itō Jakuchū Birds – “Golden Pheasant in the Snow”