Candace Walsh holds a PhD in creative writing (fiction) from Ohio University, where she teaches writing classes and received the 2022 Ohio University College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. She earned an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College. Recent or forthcoming publication credits include The Greensboro Review, Passengers Journal, and Leon Literary Review (fiction); Sinister Wisdom, Vagabond City Lit, HAD (poetry); and March Danceness, New Limestone Review, and Pigeon Pages (creative nonfiction). Her craft essays and book reviews have appeared in Brevity, Craft Literary, descant, and Fiction Writers Review. She co-edits Quarter After Eight literary journal, produces the QAE Reading Series, and coordinates Ohio University’s Visiting Writers program.

Iridescent Pigeons, her poetry chapbook, will be published in July 2024 by Yellow Arrow Publishing. Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Identity (Hachette/Seal Press) won the 2013 New Mexico-Arizona LGBT Book Award, and two of the essay anthologies she co-edited were Lambda Literary Award finalists: Dear John, I Love Jane, and Greetings from Janeland. During her time as managing editor of New Mexico Magazine, it was named “Best State/Regional Magazine” in 2013 and 2014 by the Western Publishing Association at the Maggie Awards. Candace’s feature “Caught in Roswell’s Orbit” received an IRMA Award of Merit.

Candace also teaches writing workshops, intensives, and seminars, most recently at Cleveland Lit, Somatic Writing, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Santa Fe Summer Writers’ Conference, and Taos Summer Writers’ Conference.