Candace Williams

Candace Williams is a black queer nerd living a double life. By day, she is a progressive middle school humanities educator and robotics coach. By night and subway ride, she’s a poet. Candace's first chapbook, Spells for Black Wizards (The Atlas Review), is a winner of the TAR Chapbook Series, and sold out of its first print run on the day of its launch. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the PEN Poetry Series, Tin House Online, Hyperallergic, Lambda Literary Review, Copper Nickel, the Nepantla Anthology for Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books, 2018) and the Brooklyn Poets Anthology (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2017), among other places. Her essays, poetry reviews, and interviews can be found in Electric Literature, the Fanzine, Shondaland, and VIDA Review.