Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is author of Descanso For My Father: Fragments Of A Life, part of the University of Nebraska Press American Lives Series edited by Tobias Wolff. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including New Letters, Fourth Genre and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction, which selected his essay, “Beautiful City of Tirzah,” as among fifty outstanding works since 1970. He is a New Letters Literary Award winner, five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and finalist for the National Magazine Award, PEN Center USA and Bakeless Literary Prize. He is also founding editor of Shadowbox magazine and teaches creative writing at Regis University’s Master of Arts Program, the University of Denver’s University College and Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop in Denver.
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Read an excerpt of his work here.