Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life, published by the (University of Nebraska Press American Lives Series 2012). His work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies including New Letters, Fourth Genre, Cimarron Review and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. He is a New Letters Literary Award winner, High Desert Journal Obsidian Prize winner, six-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and finalist for the Bakeless Literary Nonfiction Award, the National Magazine Award, Pen Center USA Literary Award and Santa Fe Writer’s Project Literary Award. He is the founding editor of Shadowbox literary nonfiction journal and teaches in the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University. www.harrisoncandelariafletcher.com