calls are never welcome. in a foreign language, the phone wakes you from a dream you can’t remember but maybe it was green, contained an inland sea. now on the other end of the line an old voice makes noise of tears and distance, history too far to cross and you have no alphabet […]
Tobey Hiller
Tobey Hiller writes poetry and fiction. Her publications include: 3 poetry collections, CROSSINGS (a chapbook), CERTAIN WEATHERS, and AQUEDUCT (Oyez, Oyez, & Clear Mt. Press), a novel, CHARLIE’S EXIT (EdgeWork Books), poetry, short fiction and flash in many magazines, print and online, (such as Askew, Ambush Review, North Coast Literary Review, Canary, Here Comes Everyone, Mediterranean Poetry and numerous others), and poems in four anthologies, including most recently “FIRE AND RAIN: ECOPOETRY OF CALIFORNIA (Scarlet Tanager Books 2018). AWARDS: 2 magazine firsts for poems (Embers and S.F. Poetry). Her story "The Seventh Blue" was a finalist for the 2009 REYNOLDS PRICE SHORT FICTION AWARD, and her story "Splinter" was on the short list for the 2016 Los Gatos-Listowel Short Story Contest, judged by Kevin Barry. She has recently completed two new collections of poetry: SAY I MADE THIS UP, and CROW MIND (a chapbook), and poems from both have appeared in journals. She’s also at work on a short story collection, as well as another chapbook.