Fletcher's first memoir recalls his childhood in New Mexico explores the feelings and echoes that surround events, objects, and people.

HARRISON CANDELARIA FLETCHER is an assistant professor in the MFA in Writing Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. His first book, Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life (Bison Books, 2012), won the Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and International Book Award for Best New Nonfiction, and has been taught in classrooms throughout the country. His essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies including New Letters, Fourth Genre, The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction, and Brief Encounters (Norton, 2015). His honors include a New Letters Literary Award, a Sonora Review Nonfiction Award, a High Desert Journal Obsidian Prize, a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and fellowships from the Arizona Poetry Center and Vermont Studio Center. A native New Mexican, he lives with his wife and two children in Richmond, Virginia.