Candice Wuehle is the author of the novels ULTRANATURAL (University of Iowa Press, 2026) 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. She is currently at work on Taylor Swift's Not-So-Tortured Poets Department,  to be released by the University of Iowa Press.

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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 a Chancellor's Fellow. She also publishes a monthly Substack newsletter, Bimbo Summit: A Pop Culture Study.

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Candice lives in Iowa City, Iowa where she teaches in the University of Iowa Honors Program. She is represented by Danielle Bukowski at Sterling Lord Literistic.

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