Charles Blackstone’s first novel, The Week You Weren’t Here, was hailed “a compelling balancing act to watch” (Bookslut.com) and “witty and inventive … an auspicious debut” (novelist Jonathan Baumbach) when it was released in the UK in 2003. In 2005, Brooklyn-based Low Fidelity Press reissued the book for American readers, and Time Out Chicago magazine told the story of its transatlantic journey in a full-length profile. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Evergreen Review, Salt River Review, Arabesques Journal, Black Ridge Review, Wazee Journal, M.A.G., Rio, Paste, Whet Magazine, Opium Magazine, and others. His short story, “Identifiction” was included in the anthology Jacob’s Ladder 3 (Six Gallery Press). He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder creative writing program, where he won the Barker Award for Fiction in 2001, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Hailed by Chicago Public Radio as "a writer to watch," Blackstone is currently working on co-editing an anthology of fiction and creative non-fiction which will feature works by Ronald Sukenick, Achy Obejas, Cris Mazza, Bernard Cooper, Amy Sohn, Jonathan Safran Foer, Junot Diaz, and many more, to be published in 2008 by University of Texas Press. He has done readings and appearances in Illinois, Utah, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Colorado, and New York and has taught creative writing and expository prose courses at the University of Colorado, the University of Chicago, and at Wright College in Chicago, where he currently resides.

External links

• Official website