Hillary Leftwich
Hillary Leftwich teaches contemporary and hybrid nonfiction; lyric essays: hermit crab, collage, segmented, braided; digital storytelling; documentary poetics; poetics; fiction; environmental studies, anti-racist and contemplative andragogy, narrative medicine, and empathetic medical writing. As a neurodivergent, Hillary applies methods from her research on neurodiversity, specifically synesthesia, and how everyone can learn techniques that open a pathway to exploration and sensory techniques to approach craft from angles that bend and blur. She is an advocate for her son and others who live with epilepsy and other neurological conditions in navigating a world where chaos is normative. She focuses her support on her community and the people who create beautiful art and words.