Xochiquetzal Candelaria

Xochiquetzal Candelaria (born June 13, 1973) is an American poet from San Juan Bautista, California. Her work has been showcased in The New England Review and The Nation and she has also received multiple fellowships through the National Endowment for the Arts as well as other organizations.

Education

Candelaria earned her Bachelor's degree in rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master's degree in English and American Literature from New York University.

Career

Her debut poetry collection Empire was published in 2011 by the University of Arizona Press. Candelaria is currently a professor at the City College of San Francisco where she has taught English since 2008.

Published works

• Empire, University of Arizona Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0816528820
• "On the Teaching of Philip Levine" In Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine, edited by Mari L'Esperance and Tomas Q. Morin, University of Iowa Press, 2013. ISBN 9780985932527
• Selections in Other Musics: New Latina Poetry (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Américas Series), anthology, edited by Cynthia Cruz, University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0806162881
• Selections in The Poetry of Capital: Voices from Twenty-First-Century America, anthology, edited by Benjamin S. Grossberg and Clare Rossini, University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. ISBN 9780299330446
• Selections in Four Way Review, Issue 23, Four Way Books, 2022.