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Bios

Long Bio (223 words)

Charles Jensen (he/him) wrote Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres (SFWP, 2024), which braids together in each chapter traditional memoir storytelling with discussion of a single film. His most recent collection of poetry is Instructions between Takeoff and Landing (U of Akron Press, 2022). His previous books include two collections of poetry and seven chapbooks of cross-genre work. The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs awarded him a 2024-25 Individual Master Artist Fellowship and in 2019 designated him a Cultural Trailblazer. He is the recipient of the 2020 Outwrite Nonfiction Chapbook Award, 2018 Zócalo Poetry Prize, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, the 2007 Frank O’Hara Chapbook Award, and an Artist’s Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. His poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Journal, New England Review, and Prairie Schooner, and essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, 45th Parallel, American Literary Review, Exposition Review, The Florida Review, and Passages North. He founded the digital literary magazine Villain Era to celebrate literature of revenge. He hosts The Write Process, a podcast in which one writer tells the story of crafting one work from concept to completion. He is Vice Chair of the Angels Gate Cultural Center Board of Directors and teaches film studies and creative writing at various organizations.

Shorter Bio (99 words)

Charles Jensen (he/him) wrote Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres and the poetry collection Instructions between Takeoff and Landing (U of Akron Press, 2022). His previous books include two collections of poetry and seven chapbooks of cross-genre work. The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs awarded him a 2024-25 Individual Master Artist Fellowship. His essays and poetry have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, American Poetry Review, New England Review, and Prairie Schooner, Exposition Review, The Florida Review, and Passages North. He founded the digital literary magazine Villain Era to celebrate literature of revenge.

Short Bio (58 words)

Charles Jensen (he/him) is the author of a memoir, three collections of poetry, and seven chapbooks of cross-genre work. His essays and poetry have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Exposition Review, The Florida Review, and Passages North. He founded the literary magazine Villain Era to celebrate literature of revenge.