Jay Halsey & Hillary Leftwich

3 Photographs

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Statement: Hillary Leftwich and I began a collaborative photo and writing project that will someday be published into a book. The idea is to capture our working-class neighborhood to tell stories about the connections of humans, or the connections we missed, through the distractions and hardships of everyday life.

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Jay Halsey’s poems, prose and photos have been published in several online and print journals and nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net. His photography has been used as cover art for poetry collections and novels, featured in fundraising campaigns for the Rocky Mountain Land Library in Fairplay, Colorado, and was part of a touring exhibit featured at libraries and bookstores throughout France to represent Editions Gallmeister’s American authors. The second edition of his photo and prose collection, Barely Half in an Awkward Line, is available now from Agape Editions. He was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio and has lived on the Colorado Front Range for the past sixteen years.

​Hillary Leftwich is the author of two books, Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (Agape Editions, 2023, new edition) and Aura (Future Tense Books and Blackstone Audio Publishing, 2022), and a collection of experimental forms TBA. She owns Alchemy Author Services and Writing Workshop and teaches writing at The University of Denver, Colorado College, and Unity Environmental University. On the outskirts of the writing world, she is also a professional Tarot Reader. Her latest work can be found or forthcoming in The Sun, Santa Fe Writers Project, and The Rumpus. She focuses her writing on class struggle, single motherhood, trauma, mental illness, the supernatural, ritual, and the impact of neurological disease. She teaches Tarot and Tarot writing workshops focusing on strengthening divination abilities and writing.