Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of three books of literary nonfiction—Descanso for My Father (2012),Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams (2016), and Finding Querencia: Essays from In Between (2022)—as well as the poetry chapbook Comfort of Stone (2026) and the forthcoming memoir in verse Colcha of Light. A native of Albuquerque’s North Valley and a graduate of the University of New Mexico and Vermont College of Fine Arts, Candelaria Fletcher is a former newspaper columnist, feature writer, and beat reporter whose work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including New Letters, TriQuarterly, Puerto del Sol, Best of Brevity, and Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction..