About
BIO
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 at work on a memoir centering on her travels to Cuba, which gar
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 at work on a memoir centering on her travels to Cuba, which garnered acceptance into the Winter 2025 Tin House Workshop. Originally from California, she now resides in Chicago.
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
Her work appears in River Teeth, Midwest Review, The Latina Journal of Critical Feminism, and elsewhere.
She is a 2024 Best of the Net Nominee, a 2023 Story Studio Chicago Nonfiction Fellow, a former participant of The Tin House Nonfiction Winter Workshop, The Kenyon Review Nonfiction Workshop, and a Cal Arts Institute Summer Writing Pro
Her work appears in River Teeth, Midwest Review, The Latina Journal of Critical Feminism, and elsewhere.
She is a 2024 Best of the Net Nominee, a 2023 Story Studio Chicago Nonfiction Fellow, a former participant of The Tin House Nonfiction Winter Workshop, The Kenyon Review Nonfiction Workshop, and a Cal Arts Institute Summer Writing Program. Her work has been reviewed by memoirists Gayle Brandeis, Claire Dederer and Christie Tate.