BIO
Candice Wuehle is the author of the novels ULTRANATURAL (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming) and MONARCH (Soft Skull, 2022), named a Best Book of 2022 by NPR, SPIN!, Lambda Literary, Crime Reads, and Nylon. She has also written three collections of poetry, including FIDELITORIA: fixed or fluxed (11:11, 2021), BOUND (Inside the Castle Press, 2018), and Death Industrial Complex (Action Books, 2020), selected as a 2020 finalist for The Believer Magazine Book Award.
Candice holds an MA in literature from the University of Minnesota as well as an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She earned a doctorate in Creative Writing at The University of Kansas, where she was a Chancellor's Fellow. Her studies focus on the relationship between trauma, memory, and the occult. She also publishes a monthly newsletter, Camp! Kitsch! Schlock! Schmaltz!. Read her latest post on Britney Spears conspiracy theories here.
Candice lives in Iowa City, Iowa where she teaches in the University of Iowa Honors Program.