Hillary Leftwich is a multimedia writer and the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (Agape Editions, 2023) and Aura (Future Tense Books, 2022). She teaches writing at several universities, writing organizations, and nonprofits for adults, previously incarcerated and hospitalized youth, and unhoused populations. She centers her writing around themes of class struggle, the impact of disease, mental illness, ritual, and the supernatural. On the outskirts of the writing world, she teaches Tarot and Tarot Writing workshops focusing on strengthening divination abilities along with writing. She is a professional Tarot reader, death worker, and speaks with the dead.