Easily accessible to any poetry reader, Winter of Worship offers a unique rural queer / trans white working-class perspective that examines toxic masculinity and the violence and beauty of “Middle America”
Candrilli won the Saturnalia Book Prize (2008), judged by Natalie Diaz, winner of the Pulitzer prize
Candrili was awarded a Whiting award (2019) and fellowships from PEN America and the National Endowment of the Arts
Candrilli holds an MFA and MLIS degree from the University of Alabama as well as degrees in English and Creative Writing from Penn State University
Potential audiences: Midwest region (particularly Pennsylvania), rural LGBTQ+ people, working-class LGBTQ+ people, social justice activists, transmasculine people, men questioning gender hierarchies, readers interested in ghazals