Born in Los Angeles, Charlie Dickinson now lives in Portland, Oregon, where he and his wife share shelter with two felines rescued from their vagabond ways, Hannah and Rosko. Charlie's short fiction appears at Amarillo Bay, Blue Moon Review, Eclectica, Mississippi Review, News From the Brave New World, Southern Cross Review, and elsewhere. "La Mosca" was nominated for Best of the Web 2002. He has published two novels, The Wire Donkey and The Thieves of Shiny Things, a Stone Age mystery (both Cetus Editions). He writes a blog at www.cosmicplodding.net.
