About
WRITER - NONFICTION & POETRY
Candace is a Best of the Net Nominee, a 2023 Story Studio Chicago Nonfiction Fellow, an alumni of The Tin House Nonfiction Winter Workshop and The Kenyon Review Nonfiction Workshop. She was an inaugural Prose Resident at Hudson Valley Writer's Center in 2025, and is currently working on a memoir based on her travel to Cuba. Originally from California, she now resides in Chicago.
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.