Candice Wuehle

Candice Wuehle is a writer who lives in Iowa City and teaches in the University of Iowa Honors Program. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a doctorate in Creative Writing from the University of Kansas. She is the author of the novels Ultranatural (University of Iowa Press, 2026) and Monarch (Soft Skull, 2022), the latter named a Best Book of 2022 by NPR and others. She has also published three poetry collections, including Death Industrial Complex (Action Books, 2020). Her next book, Taylor Swift's Not-So-Tortured Poets Department, is slated for the University of Iowa Press.