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Thank you, Naomi.
Let's go for another round of applause.
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All right, now we have Harrison.
Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author
of Descanso for My Father, Fragments of a Life,
part of the University of Nebraska Press American
Lives Series, edited by Tobias Wolff.
His work has appeared in numerous literary journals
and anthologies, including New Letters, Fourth Genre,
and a touchstone anthology of contemporary creative
nonfiction, which selected his essay, Beautiful
City of Tirzah, as among 50 outstanding works since 1970.
He is the New Letters Literary Award winner,
five time Pushcart Prize nominee,
and finalist of the National Magazine Award, Pen Center
USA, and the Bakeless Literary Prize.
He is also the founding editor of Shadow Box Magazine,
and has taught creative writing at Regis University's master
of arts program, the University of Denver's University College,
and Lighthouse Writers' Workshop in Denver.
And right after his residency here,
he's heading on down to Richmond, Virginia,
where he's going to start up the Nonfiction Program there.
So at Virginia Commonwealth University,
so it's really exciting, he's on his way there.
And let's please welcome Harrison Candelaria Fletcher.
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