Book Launch Party with Harrison Candelaria Fletcher and Matthew Cooperman

Please join the CSU Creative Writing Program and Department of English as we celebrate the release of new essays by NEA-winning writer Harrison Candelaria Fletcher and a new poetry collection by Guggenheim Fellow Matthew Cooperman. Books will be for sale on site. All are welcome!

About our authors

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of three books of literary nonfiction—Descanso for My Father, Presentimiento, and Finding Querencia—a poetry chapbook, Comfort of Stone, and a forthcoming memoir in verse, Colcha of Light. His work appears in New Letters, TriQuarterly, and Puerto del Sol. A recipient of NEA, MacDowell, and Helene Wurlitzer fellowships, he has won the Colorado Book Award, New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize. He teaches at Colorado State University.

Matthew Cooperman

Matthew Cooperman is the author of, most recently, the atmosphere is not a perfume it is odorless (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2024) and Wonder About The, winner of the Halcyon Prize (Middle Creek, 2023) as well as NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), w/Aby Kaupang, (Futurepoem, 2018), Spool, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2016), and other books. His ninth book, Time, & Its Monument, is just out from Station Hill Press. A Founding Editor of the exploratory prose journal Quarter After Eight, Cooperman is Co-Poetry Editor for Colorado Review, and Professor of English at Colorado State University. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, he lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the poet Aby Kaupang, and their children.