Charlie J. Stephens

Charlie J. Stephens is a queer, non-binary, mixed-race writer from the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in Salem, Oregon, and currently living in Port Orford on the southern Oregon coast, they are the owner of Sea Wolf Books & Community Writing Center. Charlie’s short fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, Best Small Fictions 2020, New World Writing, Original Plumbing (Feminist Press), and elsewhere. Their debut novel A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest (Torrey House Press) comes out April 2, 2024.