2023
The Sun Magazine “Pain” 2023 (print)
Santa Fe Writers Project “Good Girls” 2023: Santa Fe Writers Project
Harbor Review “Scarecrow” 2023: Harbor Review
Alice Says GFY “I Secretly Love Not Being Anyone’s Baby” and “Siren” 2023: Alice Says GFY
White Stag Journal “Saint Dymphna’s Playbook” forthcoming 2023
South Dakota Review”Small Town” forthcoming 2023
Scavenger’s Lit “Mothering” forthcoming 2023
Champaign Room Journal “Ghost Ship” and “Letter” 2023 (print)
Take the Fruit, Flood the Desert: An Anthology of Religious Trauma “Oh, Lord: forthcoming 2023
2022
Ruby “Drive-by Funeral” 2022: Ruby
2021
The Rumpus “Vessel” 2021: The Rumpus
2020
Big Other “Past Hertz” 2020: Big Other
Denver Quarterly “Firmament” 2020: Denver Quarterly
The Rumpus “Cunt Rhetoric” 2020: The Rumpus
People Holding “Like a Lion” 2020: People Holding
2019
Lost Balloon “Northern Lights” 2019: Lost Balloon
Entropy “You Can Always Come Back” 2019: Entropy
South Broadway Ghost Society “Holes” 2019: South Broadway Ghost Society
Pulpmouth “One Good Dress” 2019: Pulpmouth
Hairstreak Butterfly Review “Bigger,” “21st Century,” and “Yellow”: Hairstreak Butterfly Review
Anomaly “Cosplay” 2019: Anomaly
Stockholm Literary Review “Divination” 2019: Stockholm Literary Review
2018
Memoir Mixtapes “Bottle Rockets” (reprint) 2018: Memoir Mixtapes
Bending Genres “The Women” 2018: Bending Genres
Moonchild Magazine “Sacrament,” and “Incantation” 2018: Moonchild Magazine
Flash Flood Journal “Huckleberry” (reprint) 2018: Flash Flood Journal
Occulum “Four Mothers of Demons” 2018: Occulum
Jellyfish Review “Donor” 2018: Jellyfish Review
Cowboy Jamboree “Coping” 2018: Cowboy Jamboree
Hobart “Three Songs” 2018: Hobart
2017
Sundog Lit “Memories in the Park” (Finalist) 2017: Sundog Lit
Monkeybicycle “Lullaby” 2017: Monkeybicycle
Shadow Map: An Anthology Civil Coping Mechanisms Press “The Last Night You Tried to Have Fun” (print) 2017: Civil Coping Mechanisms
Hobo Camp Review “Ghosts are Just Strangers That Know How to Knock” 2017: Hobo Camp Review
Cleaver Magazine “Wild Hares” 2017: Cleaver
Smokelong Quarterly “The Flash That Haunts Us” 2017: Smokelong Quarterly
Flash: The International Short Short Magazine “Huckleberry” (print) 2017: Flash: The International Short Short Magazine
Heavy Feather Review “Final Trumpet” (print) 2018: Heavy Feather Review
Literary Orphans “baby, baby” 2017: Literary Orphans
2016
The Airgonaut “The Difference Between a Raven and a Crow” 2016: The Airgonaut
Live Nude Poems “Untitled” 2016: Live Nude Poems
Anti-heroine Chic “the doll i was” 2016: Anti-Heroin Chic
Anti-heroine Chic “The Wives”2016: Anti-Heroin Chic
Flash Flood Journal “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” (reprint) 2016: Flash Flood
Matter Press ”Wizard of Oz Snowglobe” 2016: Matter Press
Matter Press “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” (reprint) 2016: Matter Press
Fried Chicken and Coffee “Scarecrow” 2016: Fried Chicken and Coffee
Flashfiction.net ”Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” 2016: Flashfiction.net
Kleft Jaw Press “Becoming Onnagata” 2016: Kleft Jaw
Sargasso Journal “If Only Tonight We Could Sleep,” “Rockabye Sweet Baby James,” “This Never Gets Any Easier,” “People Call You a Space Cowboy” (print) 2017: Sargasso
Spelk “Secrets of the Playground” 2016: Spelk
decomP “Saba on the Shore” 2016: decomp
Gone Lawn Journal “Tajo” and “His Bones” 2016: Gone Lawn
Crab Fat Magazine “Tiger Lily” 2016: Crab Fat Magazine
Ratt’s Ass Review “Mackinac” 2016: Rat’s Ass Review
The Airgonaut “A Good Wife” 2016: The Airgonaut
WhiskeyPaper “Bottle Rockets” 2016: Whiskey Paper
Hobart “I Lost My Orgasm” 2015: Hobart
Cease, Cows “Bang, Snap!” 2016: Cease, Cows
Pure Slush “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” 2016: Pure Slush
Digging Through the Fat “I Lost My Orgasm” (reprint) 2016: Digging Through the Fat
Digging Through the Fat “Bang, Snap!” (reprint) 2016: Digging Through the Fat
Flashfiction.net “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” (reprint) 2016: Flashfiction.net
Bartleby Snopes “Examination” 2016: Bartleby Snopes
Ressurrection of a Sunflower “Somewhere There is a Field Where the Birds Will Die for You” (print) 2017: Resurrection of a Sun Flower
Cowboy Jamboree “Paladin” 2016: Cowboy Jamboree
Hobo Camp Review “Loss Aversion” 2016: Hobo Camp Review
Mutiny Info Reader “Supertramp” (print) 2016: Mutiny Info Reader
Mutiny Info Reader “Ghosts” (print) 2016: Mutiny Info Reader
Mutiny Info Reader “I answer the missed connections on Craigslist because I don’t want people to feel alone and I don’t want to feel alone either” (print) 2016: Mutiny Info Reader
2015
Progenitor “Free Lunch” (Print) 2015: Progenitor
2014
NANO Fiction “Runt” 2014: NANO Fiction
Monkeybicycle “A Small Infestation Following a Big Stroke of Luck” 2014: Monkeybicycle
Dogzplot “Things They Don’t Talk About in Parenting Class” 2014: dogzplot
Eunoia Review “Supernova” 2014: Eunoia Review
The Citron Review “Play Date” 2014: The Citron Review
2013
The Missouri Review “Working Writer Series” 2013: The Missouri Review
The Review Review “Writing Communities as Families 2013: The Review Review
Awards
2021
Best Small Fictions “Past Hertz” Big Other: Best Small Fictions
2020
Best of the Net nomination “Cosplay” Anomaly, 2020
Wigleaf Longlist “Cosplay” 2020: Wigleaf Longlist
2019
Finalist for the 2019 Big Other Book Award for Fiction “Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock” Big Other
Voted One of the Best Fiction Books of 2019 Entropy “Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock” Entropy
Pushcart Prize nomination “Northern Lights” Lost Balloon, 2019
Best Microfiction nomination “Cosplay” Anamoly, 2019
2017
Sundog Lit “Memories in the Park” Finalist, 2017
Best Small Fictions Nomination “Lullaby” Monkeybicycle, 2017
Best Small Fictions Nomination “Eye of the Hummingbird” (b)oink, 2017
Pushcart Prize Nomination “A Good Wife” Airgonaut, 2017
Pushcart Prize Nomination “Examination” Bartleby Snopes, 2017
2016
Pushcart Prize Nomination “Paladin” Cowboy Jamboree, 2016
Best Small Fictions Nomination “Tajo” decomp magazine, 2016
2015
Pushcart Prize Nomination “Free Lunch” Progenitor, 2015
Writers Studio Literary Contest 1st Place: Fiction “Free Lunch” Arapahoe Community College, 2015
High School
Colorado Young Writers Award, First Place in Fiction, 1995
Hillary Leftwich 