Selected WorkS
BOOKS
Aura. Future Tense Books. 21 Jul 2022. Print.
Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock. Agape Editions. New Edition. 9 Jan 2023.
Print.
ESSAYS IN ANTHOLOGIES
“Becoming Your Own Sexual Advocate.” Women’s Reproductive Health Anthology. New York:
Fulcrum Publishing. 2024 (forthcoming). Print.
“The Last Night You Tried to Have Fun.” Shadow Map: An Anthology. Portland: Civil Coping
Mechanisms Press. 2017. Print.
PROSE IN ANTHOLOGIES
“Saint Dymphna’s Playbook.” Spirit: A Compendium of Esoteric Poetry. White Stag Publishing. 2023.
Print.
“Firmament.” The Best Small Fictions. New York: Sonder Press. 2021. Print.
PROSE
“Small Town.” South Dakota Review 58.2. (spring, 2024). Print.
“Pain.” The Sun Magazine. 570 (summer 2023). 39. Print.
Mountain Bluebird Magazine. 4 (Summer
2023). 13-15. Print.
“Scarecrow.” Harbor Review. 10. March 2023. Web.
“Good Girls.” Santa Fe Writers Project. 30. 22 Jan 2022. Web.
“Vessel.” The Rumpus. “Voices on Addiction” Series. 15 Nov 2021. Web.
“Like a Lion.” People Holding. 21 Oct 2020. Web.
“Cunt Rhetoric.” The Rumpus “Enough” Series. 17 March 2020. Web.
“Past Hertz.” Big Other. 11 Feb 2020. Web.
“Firmament.” Denver Quarterly. 54.3 (Spring 2020). 55-56. Print.
“You Can Always Come Back.” Entropy. Feb 2019. Web.
“Final Trumpet.” Heavy Feather Review. 7 (summer 2018). 139. Print.
“Three Songs.” Hobart. Sept 2018. Web.
“Huckleberry.” Flash: The International Short Short Magazine 10.1
(Spring 2017). 48. Print.
“Wizard of Oz Snowglobe.” Matter Press. June 2016. Web.
CRITICAL ESSAYS
Leftwich, Hillary. “Becoming Your Own Sexual Advocate.” New Skin Magazine. 19 (summer 2019).
23-25. Print.
Leftwich, Hillary. “The Flash That Haunts Us.” 23 June 2016. Smokelong Quarterly. Web.
JOURNALISM AND BOOK REVIEWS
Leftwich, Hillary. “Family, Culture, Politics, and Heartbreak in the Modern West: Nawaaz Ahmed’s
Debut Novel Ponders Endings from Beginnings: Review of Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives.”
High Country News. Online and Print. 31 Aug 2021.
Leftwich, Hillary. “Weeping in the Tropical Moonlight Because No One’s Told Her.” Review of
Fox Henry Frazier’s Weeping in the Tropical Moonlight Because No One’s Told Her. Heavy Feather
Review. 29 July 2022. Web.
Leftwich, Hillary. “Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities: A Flash Fiction Collection.” Review of
Nancy Stohlman’s “Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities.” 14 Nov 2018. Heavy Feather
Review. Web.
Leftwich, Hillary. “Room Echo Louder Without Anything Inside of Them.” Review of Steven Dunn’s “water & power.” 10 Oct 2018. Heavy Feather Review. Web.
“Cafe Cultura: The Heart of the Denver Community.” 16 March 2017. Web.
*All photographs by ghost lenz @ghost_lenz Copyright 2017
Main cover photo by Jay Halsey copyright 2023