author visits &
EDUCATION
With 10+ years as a k-12 in-classroom educator, Iloh has kept a focus on public school classrooms, athletic programs, detention centers, and youth shelters. Iloh has served as a workshop facilitator & interim program doctor with Voices UnBroken, a program that brought creative writing workshops to court-involved youth; a teaching artist with Urban Arts Partnership, an arts education org that paired NYC-based youth with pre-professional creative resources and space to develop as artists; and a professional development specialist/trainer with Marquis Studios for educators working with young people, creatively, across a wide range of abilities. From 2016 - 2019, they completed a three-year residency as Writer-in-Residence at the Bronx Academy of Letters supporting high school students in the production of new and fresh youth-centered editorial & literary content. Currently, candice teaches as a lecturer of nontraditional writing for young people at the University of Pennsylvania.
“Iloh impressed and moved booksellers with their frank and honest account of how they pushed past depression and the despair of publishers rejecting other writing to draft Salt the Water. “I was blown away. They are truly writing without the ‘adult gaze and I cannot wait to read this urgent and powerful book.”
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school & university visits
candice is an experienced educator, writing facilitator, and teaching artist of 12+ years. they are a dynamic presenter whose work is driven by culturally responsive practices built to connect with young people where they are. bring candice to your school!
candice’s forte is young people and audiences that want to connect with or write for young young people! bring candice to your campus to engage with future educators, writers, and school counseling professionals to bring the author - reader relationship to life.
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WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES
candice has been faculty at a number of writing retreats, workshops, and residencies during which they are intentional in being generous with emerging writers looking to write poems, their first novel, or something else. as a proud recipient opportunities from spaces like Lambda Literary, Tin House, Kimbilio Fiction, and VONA, candice is committed to be helping other writers find their creative homes
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
candice loves to have community involved in their art practice by creating live experiences. these experiences are generally multi-generational spaces where audiences can wrestle with the questions that are raised in candice’s stories. beyond books, candice spends time in creative collaboration with other artists locally to bring more multi-media literary experiences to the doorstep of the families and young people like the ones in Every Body Looking, Break This House, and Salt the Water.
