Candace Walsh is a fourth-year PhD student in creative writing (fiction) at Ohio University. She holds an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College.
Candace Walsh is a fourth-year PhD student in creative writing (fiction) at Ohio University. She holds an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College. Recent or forthcoming publication credits include The Greensboro Review, Passengers Journal, Leon Literary Review, Entropy, Complete Sentence, Craft, and Akashic Books' Santa Fe Noir (fiction); Vagabond City, HAD, Roi Fainéant, Husk, and Beyond Queer Words (poetry); and New Limestone Review and Pigeon Pages (creative nonfiction). Her craft essays and book reviews have appeared in Brevity, descant, New Mexico Magazine, and Fiction Writers Review. She co-edits Quarter After Eight literary journal. A passage from her novel in progress made the longlist of the 2018 First Pages Prize. She received the 2022 Ohio University College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Walsh has also taught writing workshops, intensives, and seminars at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, and Santa Fe Summer Writers’ Conference. Her 2012 book, Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Identity (Seal Press) won the 2013 New Mexico-Arizona LGBT Book Award, and two of the three essay anthologies she co-edited were Lambda Literary Award finalists.
