Charles Jensen is the author of The First Risk and three chapbooks, which was a finalist for the 2010 Lambda Literary Award in Poetry. His chapbooks include Living Things, which won the 2006 Frank O’Hara Chapbook Award, and The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon (New Michigan Press, 2007). A past recipient of an Artist’s Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, his poetry has appeared in Bloom, Columbia Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, The Journal, New England Review, spork, and West Branch. He holds an MFA in poetry from Arizona State University. He is the founding editor of the online poetry magazine LOCUSPOINT, which explores creative work on a city-by-city basis. He serves as director of The Writer's Center, one of the nation's largest independent literary centers, on the board of directors of the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, and was recently elected to the Emerging Leader Council of Americans for the Arts.

The First Risk (Lethe Press, 2009)

The Nanopedia Quick Reference Pocket Lexicon of Contemporary American Culture (MiPOesias, 2012), The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon (New Michigan Press, 2007), Living Things (Thorngate Road, 2006), Little Burning Edens (Red Mountain, 2005)

Anti-, Bloom, Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, New England Review, Spork, The Collagist, The Journal, West Branch, Willow Springs