WelcomeHarrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life, published in 2012 by the University of Nebraska Press American Lives Series edited by Tobias Wolff. A New Letters Literary Award winner, five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and finalist for the National Magazine Award, Bakeless Literary Prize and Pen Center USA contest, his work has appeared in numerous literary journals including New Letters, Fourth Genre, Cimarron Review, New Ohio Review, Water~Stone Review, Puerto del Sol, South Loop Review, Palabra, and The Writer’s Chronicle. One of his essays, “Beautiful City of Tirzah,” was selected by the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction as among 50 outstanding works since 1970. He also has been awarded creative writing fellowships from the Arizona Poetry Center, the Vermont Studio Center, PlatteForum and Art 342. An MFA graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts, he is a creative writing instructor at Regis University’s Master of Arts Program, University of Denver, and Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop. He is also the founding editor of Shadowbox, former creative nonfiction editor at upstreet, and a former columnist, feature writer and reporter at major newspapers in Colorado, New Mexico and California. A native New Mexican, he lives in Denver with his wife and two and children. |
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