Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of Descanso for My Father (2012), Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams (2016), and Finding Querencia (2022). His lyric essays, personal essays and prose poems have appeared in such venues as New Letters, TriQuarterly, Puerto del Sol, Best of Brevity, Best of Pilgrimage, Brief Encounters  and The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. His essays have also been noted in the Pushcart and Best American Essays anthologies.

He is the recipient of the Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize, Colorado Book Award, New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, New Letters Literary Award, High Desert Journal Obsidian Prize, Sonora Review Essay Award and Juxtaprose Nonfiction Award, Kirkus Reviews "Best Indie Memoirs" award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Helen Wurlitzer Foundation, Arizona Poetry Center and Vermont Studio Center. He was also a finalist for the National Magazine Award and International Latino Book Award.

A native of Albuquerque, he is a former columnist, feature writer and beat reporter at newspapers throughout the West.  He is also core faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts Low Residency MFA Program and a contributing editor at Speculative Nonfiction.