Candice Baxter

Writer

Candice Baxter earned her BS in Business and MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Memphis where she taught first-year composition. She has published work in nationally distributed literary journals and writes cover features for various Memphis-area publications.

Find her work in print in Germantown Magazine where she is the managing editor, or online at ilovememphisblog.

ilovememphisblog

From cheap dates to the top family-owned butcher shops, follow me to bright spots in Memphis.

MEDICAL
Therapy Dogs

Germantown Medical Guide
Not all medicine comes in a bottle.

FOOD
Dinner and a Show

Germantown Magazine
Date night gets fancy with fine dining and local theatre.

green river
TRAVEL
Nice

Freeflow Institute
Week-long wilderness writers retreat, hosted by award-winning writer Pam Houston, rafting the Green River from Gates of Lodore to Dinosaur National Monument, Utah.

Erling Jensen
FOOD
Behind the Blade

Edible Memphis
The story of a Chef’s favorite knife

OUTDOORS
Run. Bike. Paddle

Germantown Magazine Experience the city from three different perspectives.

FOOD
Firehouse Grub

Edible Memphis
At Station 38, each firefighter takes a turn cooking three meals a day.

LIFESTYLE
Legacy of Wildwood

Germantown Magazine
Olympic gold medalist gifts 350-acre farm to university, keeping land intact in perpetuity.

ART
In Plain Sight

The Fiddleback
Roy Tamboli’s massive public sculpture anchored for decades at the only place where Poplar Avenue crosses Walnut Grove.