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. 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 Gulf Stream Magazine, River Teeth, Midwest Review, and elsewhere.
She is a Best of the Net Nominee, a 2023 Story Studio Chicago Nonfiction Fellow, an alumni of The Tin House Nonfiction Winter Workshop, The Kenyon Review Nonfiction Workshop, and a Cal Arts Institute Summer Writing Program. She was an inaugural Prose Re
Her work appears in Gulf Stream Magazine, River Teeth, Midwest Review, and elsewhere.
She is a Best of the Net Nominee, a 2023 Story Studio Chicago Nonfiction Fellow, an alumni of The Tin House Nonfiction Winter Workshop, The Kenyon Review Nonfiction Workshop, and a Cal Arts Institute Summer Writing Program. She was an inaugural Prose Resident at Hudson Valley Writer's Center in 2025. Her work has been reviewed by memoirists Gayle Brandeis, Claire Dederer and Christie Tate.