Author of the forthcoming Dick Cheney in Shorts and of four novels, including The Contractor and Back in the Game, Charles Holdefer grew up in Iowa and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the
Sorbonne. He currently teaches at the
University of Poitiers, France.
His short fiction has appeared in many
magazines, including the New England Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, North American Review, Los Angeles Review, Slice and Yellow Silk. His story "The Raptor" won a Pushcart Prize.
He also writes essays and reviews which have appeared in The Antioch
Review, World Literature Today, New England Review, The Dactyl Review,
The Collagist, l'Oeil du Spectateur, New York Journal of Books, Journal of
the Short Story in English and elsewhere.
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