Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of Descanso for My Father, Presentimiento, Finding Querencia, and the poetry chapbook, Comfort of Stone. His lyric essays, personal essays and prose poems have appeared widely in such journals and anthologies as New Letters, TriQuarterly, Puerto del Sol, Best of Brevity and The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction, and has been noted in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays series.

The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and Vermont Studio Center, he has been awarded the Colorado Book Award, New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize, and Kirkus Reviews "Best Indie Memoir." He also has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, PEN Center USA Award and International Latino Book Award.

A native of Albuquerque's North Valley, he is a former columnist, feature writer and beat reporter at newspapers throughout the West.  He is also a contributing editor at Speculative Nonfiction.