Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams - Paperback

by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher (Author)

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher's award-winning memoir recalls his childhood in New Mexico and his reflections on ancestry, working to fill in the gaps in his memory to honor those loved most.

Author Biography

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher's Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams is the winner of the 2015 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize selected by Dinty W. Moore. Presentimiento is also a 2016 International Latino Book Awards Autobiography finalist and a 2017 Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Memoirs selection. His first book, Descanso For My Father: Fragments of A Life (University of Nebraska American Lives Series, 2012), won the Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and the International Book Award for Best New Nonfiction. He teaches in the MFA Programs at Colorado State University and Vermont College of Fine Arts. A native New Mexican, he lives with his wife and two children in Fort Collins, Colorado.