Bio

BIOGRAPHY OF ROCCIE HILL

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 non-profits and produced a variety of short films and celebrity/royal events, including an exclusive dinner at the private home (Highgrove) of His Majesty Charles III.

Upon her return to California, she became a career non-profit executive, and was the Executive Director for 7 years at Guide Dogs of the Desert, as well as the elected Chair of the California Association of Non-profits Public Policy Council. 

Roccie has published four novels, one of which was an Amazon and Barnes & Nobel bestseller and won the WILLA First Place Award for Best Historical Novel for 2024, several short stories, a play, exhibited her photography in Palm Springs, and studied the history and genealogy of US borderlands culture in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas. She is a professional genealogist, with a focus on Native American ancestry. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America-Southern California and a member (and former 1^st Vice Regent) of the Cahuilla Chapter DAR, and a former Board Member of both the Palm Springs United Nations Association and the Palm Springs Writers Guild.

Roccie recently received a 20-year anniversary award as an Ambassador for AcademyWomen, an organization supporting military women at all levels.

She has one daughter, a former B-2 pilot and Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force who currently serves as part of the Staff of the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon.

The Wounds of My Father is her fourth novel.