Candace Walsh

Candace Walsh holds a PhD in creative writing (fiction) from Ohio University and an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College. She is a visiting assistant professor of English (Creative Writing and Literature) at Ohio University. Her poetry chapbook, Iridescent Pigeons, was released by Yellow Arrow Publishing in July 2024. Recent/forthcoming publication credits include Trampset, California Quarterly, Sinister Wisdom, Vagabond City Lit, and HAD (poetry); March Danceness, New Limestone Review, and Pigeon Pages (creative nonfiction); and The Greensboro Review, Passengers Journal, and Leon Literary Review (fiction). 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 proposed and moderated an AWP panel on the braided essay as a social justice action with panelists Nicole Walker, Anna Chotlos, and Sarah Minor. At Ohio University, she co-edited Quarter After Eight literary journal for three years, founded and produced the QAE Reading Series, and coordinated the English department’s Visiting Writers program. Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Identity (Hachette/Seal Press) won the 2013 New Mexico-Arizona LGBT Book Award, and two essay anthologies she co-edited were Lambda Literary Award finalists: Dear John, I Love Jane, and Greetings from Janeland. She also edited Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On. Candace also teaches writing workshops, intensives, and seminars, most recently at Cleveland Lit, Somatic Writing, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Santa Fe Summer Writers’ Conference, and Taos Summer Writers’ Conference.