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Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of the memoir, Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams , the essay collection, Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life , and his newest book, Finding Querencia: Essays from In Between . He is the recipient of a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose, the Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize, the Colorado Book Award, the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, the Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal, a Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Me
His work has appeared widely in such venues as New Letters , TriQuarterly , Puerto del So l, Best of Brevity , Best of Pilgrimage , Brief Encounters , The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction and Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology . His other honors include the New Letters Literary Award, High Desert Journal Obsidian Prize, Sonora Review Essay Award, Juxtaprose Nonfiction Award, Pushcart Prize Special Mention, Best American Essays Notable selection, a
He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, MacDowell Fellowship, Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize, Colorado Book Award, New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, New Letters Literary Award, High Desert Journal Obsidian Prize, Sonora Review Essay Award, and JuxtaProse Essay Award. He also received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, Best American Essays Notables, Kirkus Review Best Indie Memoir, Top Ten Latinx Author of 2017 by Latino Stories , and was a finalist for the Nat