Candace Walsh

Candace Walsh is the author of Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family & Identity (Hachette/Seal Press), winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for books by LGBTQIA+ writers. Her poetry chapbook, Iridescent Pigeons, was published by Yellow Arrow in 2024. She also edited three essay anthologies, including Lambda Literary Award finalists Dear John, I Love Jane (Hachette/Seal Press) and Greetings from Janeland (Simon and Schuster/Cleis Press). Her poem “Wild and Frail and Beautiful” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2024. She holds a PhD in fiction from Ohio University and an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College. Her work has been supported by fellowships at Warren Wilson College. Recent publications include The Greensboro Review, Passengers Journal, and Leon Literary Review (fiction); Trampset, California Quarterly, Sinister Wisdom, Vagabond City Lit, and HAD (poetry); and March Danceness, New Limestone Review, and Pigeon Pages (creative nonfiction). Her craft and pedagogical essays and book reviews have appeared in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Brevity, Craft Literary, descant, and Fiction Writers Review. She serves as Assistant Professor in CWU's BA and MA programs, teaching creative nonfiction, fiction, and multi-genre writing classes, as well as literature and literary publishing. 

She co-edited Quarter After Eight literary journal for three years, founded and produced the QAE Reading Series, and coordinated the Ohio University English department’s Visiting Writers program. Prior to graduate school, Candace was a technical writer, freelance journalist, marketing writer, magazine editor, and developmental editor. She also taught workshops, intensives, and seminars at Bird by Bird and Beyond, Cleveland Lit, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, Santa Fe Summer Writers’ Conference, and the Wild Mountain Memoir Retreat. 

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