I am the sort of creature to hold a star in my palm and try to eat it.

Thank you to my mother for reading to me when I was small. You instilled in me then a love of story, word, manipulation of language and heartstring, that I have ever since cultivated into a foundational passion for writing. Fiction, and especially short fiction, has since become a home.

That is the core of me: The Author. Other details include: I am of average height. I am bilingual. One day I will make all the art I've ever thought of. I am a desert lizard writhing in unexpected oceans. I have occasionally three names. Were I to name any particular emotional throughline that reverberates through my writing, and my self, I would call it "grief." Earthquakes are terrifying and inevitable. The shockwaves last longer, and spread farther, than you hope they do.

Or, to be less obtuse:

Charlie M. Case is an author from Southern California, currently living in New England. He has been published in Blue Muse Magazine, Long River Review, and Unmagnolia Magazine, among others, and holds a B.A. in English from the University of Connecticut. Their work spans multiple genres, but of all forms, it is short fiction which has twined itself between their ribs. Some of its favorites include: chamomile, dawn, rollercoasters, and thunderstorms.

Accolades:

• 2023–2024 Jennie Hackman Memorial Prize for Short Fiction, 1st prize, for “Newton Considers the Still Life.”
• 2023–2024 Edward R. and Frances Schreiber Collins Literary Prize in poetry, for “Aromantic’s Apotropaic.”
• 2018 Taylor A. Greene High School Prose Contest, 1st place, for “You’re Prepared (For Nothing That Will Happen, and Everything That Might)
• 2018 Law Day Essay Contest, Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society, winner.