Xochiquetzal Candelaria

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. Her poetry collections Empire and Show Me the Bells were published by the University of Arizona Press and Tia Chucha Press. Candelaria is a professor at the City College of San Francisco where she has taught English since 2008. == Published works ==

• Empire, University of Arizona Press, 2011. • Show Me the Bells, Tia Chucha Press, 2024. • "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. • 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. • 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. • Selections in Four Way Review, Issue 23, Four Way Books, 2022. == References ==