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 work has appeared widely in such literary journals and anthologies as New Letters, TriQuarterly, Puerto del Sol, Blue Mesa Review, Best of Brevity, Best of Pilgrimage, Brief Encounters, Advanced Creative Nonfiction, and The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction.

He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, MacDowell Fellowship, Helen Wurlitzer Foundation Fellowship, Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize, Colorado Book Award, New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, New Letters Literary Award, High Desert Journal Obsidian Prize, Sonora Review Essay Award, and JuxtaProse Essay Award.

He also has been a finalist for the International Latino Book Award, National Magazine Award and Bakeless Literary Nonfiction Prize. His work has been noted in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays anthologies and listed in Kirkus Review’s Best Indie Memoirs and Top Ten Latinx Authors by Latino Stories.

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.