Charles Stephens is an Atlanta-based writer and an MFA candidate in fiction at Randolph College where he is a Nancy Craig Blackburn Fellow. His work has been supported by Tin House, VONA, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, AWP, Periplus, and the Hambidge Center. His writing can be found or is forthcoming in Copper Nickel, StoryQuarterly, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, and elsewhere. Charles has also published essays and criticism in Atlanta Magazine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Them, ArtsATL, and the Advocate. In 2014, he co-edited the anthology Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.
