About

Hillary Dodge is an author and editor of dark speculative fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in Pseudopod, Space & Time Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and the HWA Poetry Showcase (Volumes IX and X). She is the co-editor of Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas (Hex Publishers, 2021), winner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for Anthology. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University.

She spent her childhood between Kentucky and New Hampshire, surrounded by a family of gifted storytellers, and began inventing stories at the age of seven. A notebook has rarely left her side since. That same curiosity—and perhaps a mild disregard for sensible itineraries—has carried her to unusual corners of the world: drinking tea with a Roma in a cave in the mountains of Spain, meeting a desert hermit eight hours from civilization in Chile’s Atacama, and working from the passenger seat of her Subaru along the ragged edges of wild places in South America. The people, places, and forgotten histories she discovers inevitably find their way into her fiction.

In addition to her writing, Hillary has worked as an editor and ghostwriter and has built a career spanning public library leadership, higher education, educational administration, and knowledge management in the technology sector. Together, those experiences have deepened her fascination with the ways people create, preserve, and lose knowledge—a theme that continues to shape the hidden systems, forgotten institutions, and resilient communities at the heart of her fiction. She lives in Colorado with her husband, daughter, and their thoroughly spoiled Chilean rescue dog, Frida.