About
BIO
PRODUCER - POETRY BROTHEL - CHICAGO CHAPTER
PRODUCER - POETRY BROTHEL - CHICAGO CHAPTER
Candace has degrees in Chinese Studies, International Studies, and Political Science from California State University, Long Beach and has passed the Foreign Service Exam administered by The US State Department. She studied in Taiwan, Jordan, and Kazakhstan and is currently querying a memoir based on the journey from an impoverished chil
Candace has degrees in Chinese Studies, International Studies, and Political Science from California State University, Long Beach and has passed the Foreign Service Exam administered by The US State Department. She studied in Taiwan, Jordan, and Kazakhstan and is currently querying a memoir based on the journey from an impoverished childhood to her travels around the world. She is at work on a memoir centering on her travels to Cuba. Originally from California, she now resides in Chicago.
PRODUCER - POETRY BROTHEL - CHICAGO CHAPTER
PRODUCER - POETRY BROTHEL - CHICAGO CHAPTER
PRODUCER - POETRY BROTHEL - CHICAGO CHAPTER
Produced by the Poetry Society of New York, The Poetry Brothel is an immersive literary cabaret that infuses poetry, activism, vaudeville, burlesque, live music, visual art, magic, mysticism, and private, one-on-one poetry experiences.
Contact: candace@poetrysocietyny.org
PUBLICATIONS & WORKSHOPS
PUBLICATIONS & WORKSHOPS
PUBLICATIONS & WORKSHOPS
Her work appears in River Teeth, Midwest Review, The Latina Journal of Critical Feminism, and elsewhere.
She is a former participant of The Kenyon Review Nonfiction Workshop with Dinty W. Moore, Story Studio Chicago's Storyboard Poetry Workshop with Patricia Smith, and a Cal Arts Institute Summer Writing Program. Her work has been reviewe
Her work appears in River Teeth, Midwest Review, The Latina Journal of Critical Feminism, and elsewhere.
She is a former participant of The Kenyon Review Nonfiction Workshop with Dinty W. Moore, Story Studio Chicago's Storyboard Poetry Workshop with Patricia Smith, and a Cal Arts Institute Summer Writing Program. Her work has been reviewed by memoirists Gayle Brandeis, Claire Dederer and Christie Tate.
ADMIRED THOUGHTS
PUBLICATIONS & WORKSHOPS
PUBLICATIONS & WORKSHOPS
"I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves."
― Mary Karr
"Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes a space for that. "
―John Green
“One old bourbon drinker told me that a man’s life is all a matter of mountains and caves—mountains we must climb, caves whe
"I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves."
― Mary Karr
"Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes a space for that. "
―John Green
“One old bourbon drinker told me that a man’s life is all a matter of mountains and caves—mountains we must climb, caves where we hide when we can’t face our mountains.”
― J.R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar