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Roccie Hill

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Santa Monica, California, The United States

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Historical Fiction, Thriller, Fiction

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Roccie Hill is an American writer and a native Californian. She 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. After graduate school, she moved to Salinas, where she worked with César Chavez as part of the United Farm Workers union.
She lived and worked in Paris for 8 years 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 for 8 years, mostly in Gloucestershire, where she worked for nonprofits and produced a variety of short films and celebrity/royal events.
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Average rating: 4.3 · 1,598 ratings · 88 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Blood of My Mother 4.32 avg rating — 1,535 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wounds of My Father 3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Minutes on Love 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Window of Exposure 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Roccie Hill's Blog: Roccie Hill - Private Sojourner

Things That Fly

In all the world we love things that fly, because we envy them. We want to soar, and be a part of nature. But we are not. We are cerebral, and we will never soar. The sad and lonely truth....but there it is.

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Published on November 10, 2015 18:00

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Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest (Barker Texas History Center Series)

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“You want to know what killing him felt like? Didn’t feel like anything.”
― Roccie Hill, The Blood of My Mother

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“Remember that. You must forgive, even those that do not know to ask. Don’t spend yer days piercin’ yer own side.”
― Roccie Hill, The Blood of My Mother

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