Roccie Hill

Roccie Hill is an American writer from California. Her latest novel, The Blood of My Mother, is the 2024 Winner of the WILLA Literary Award for Historical Fiction. Roccie received her BA in Philosophy and History at UCLA, and her MA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, where her short stories appeared regularly in the literary quarterly. She lived and worked in Paris as a journalist, a teacher of Creative Writing, a Marketing Officer for the Statue of Liberty Centennial, and as a mother (her most important job ever). She also lived in England, where she worked for nonprofits and produced a variety of short films and celebrity/royal events. Upon her return to California, she published three novels, several short stories, a play, exhibited her photography, and studied the history and genealogy of US borderlands cultures in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas. She is a genealogist, with a focus on Native American ancestry.