Candice Wuehle is the author of the novel MONARCH (Soft Skull, 2022) as well as 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), which was selected as a 2020 finalist for The Believer Magazine Book Award.  She is also a co-author of Collected Voices in the Expanded Field (11:11, 2020). Her chapbooks include VIBE CHECK (Garden-door Press, 2018), EARTH* AIR* FIRE* WATER *ÆTHER (Grey Books Press, 2015) and cursewords: a guide in 19 steps for aspiring transmographs (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). Her work can be found in The Iowa Review, Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Black Warrior Review, Tarpaulin Sky, The Volta, The Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, and Joyland. 

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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 the recipient of a Chancellor's Fellowship. Her studies focus on the relationship between trauma, memory, and the occult. She also publishes a weekly newsletter, Camp! Kitsch! Schlock! Schmaltz!. Read her latest post on Britney Spears conspiracy theories here.

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Candice lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

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