A celebrated and popular creative writing teacher, Charles Salzberg has been a visiting professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and has taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter College, the Writer's Voice and the New York Writers Workshop, where he is a founding member. He is a consulting editor at the webzine Ducts.org and co-host, with Jonathan Kravetz, of the reading series, Trumpet Fiction, at KGB in New York City. His freelance work has appeared in such publications as Esquire, New York magazine, GQ, Elle, Redbook, Ladies' Home Journal, the New York Times arts and leisure section, the New York Times Book Review and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.