Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Profile

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of Finding Querencia: Essays from In-Between, as well as Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams (Autumn House 2016) and Descanso for My Father (University of Nebraska Press 2012).

His books have been honored with a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize, Colorado Book Award, New Mexico/Arizona Book Award, International Latino Book Awards finalist designation, and Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Memoir selection.

His personal essays, lyric essays and prose poems have been noted in the Best American Essaysand Pushcart Prize series and have been published widely in such venues as New Letters, Puerto del Sol, TriQuarterly, and Fourth Genre, and have been anthologized in The Best of Brevity, Brief Encounters, The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction, and The Best of Pilgrimage.

Before receiving his MFA in Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, he was an award-winning columnist, feature writer, and beat reporter at newspapers throughout the West. He teaches in the MFA Program at Colorado State University and serves as co-creative nonfiction editor of Colorado Review and a contributing editor of Speculative Nonfiction. A native New Mexican, he lives with his wife and two children in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Learn more at harrisoncandelariafletcher.com.