Candace Wiley
Executive Director
The Watering Hole Poetry Org.
Professional Bio
Candace Wiley is co-founding director of The Watering Hole Poetry Org., a nonprofit that creates Harlem Renaissance-style spaces in the contemporary South, and she often writes in the mode of Afrofuturism and has been a Vermont Studio Center Fellow, Callaloo Fellow and a Fulbright Fellow. Her work has been featured in Furious Flower: Seeding the Future…, Kenyon Review, Wild Gods Anthology, Killing the Negative Table Book, and Best American Poetry 2015, among others. She left a professorial position at Clemson University to build her own real estate portfolio. She now helps homeowners and investors find, rehab, rent, and sell their properties with the mindset of an investor.
Learn more at www.candacegwiley.com and www.jetaproperties.com
Organization
Parent: The Watering Hole Poetry Org.
Education
Bowie State University 2007
Bachelor's of Arts: English Literature & Languages
Clemson University 2009
Master's of Arts: American Literature
University of South Carolina 2012
Master's of Fine Arts: Creative Writing