Jos Charles
American poet, writer, translator, and editor (*1988)
jos charles (stylized in lowercase) is a trans American poet, writer, translator, and editor. Her book feeld won the National Poetry Series, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2024, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. She currently resides in Long Beach, California. She founded THEM, the first trans literary journal in the United States.
Early life and education
Charles grew up in a conservative Evangelical Christian family, and wrote her first poem, about the Crucifixion, when she was seven years old. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizona. She is a PhD student in English at the University of California, Irvine.
Biography
Charles's debut poetry collection, Safe Space, was published in 2016 by Ahsahta Press. Her poetry has been published by Poetry, PEN, Washington Square Review, Denver Quarterly, GLAAD, Lambda Literary, The Feminist Wire, Action Yes, Bloom, and The Capilano Review.
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