"Charles Holdefer is the author of six novels and four collections of short stories. His fiction has appeared in New England Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, North American Review, Los Angeles Review, Brooklyn Review and many other magazines. His story ""The Raptor"" won a Pushcart Prize. He also writes essays and reviews which have appeared in The Antioch Review, World Literature Today, New England Review, Dactyl Review, The Collagist, l'Oeil du Spectateur, New York Journal of Books, Journal of the Short Story in English and elsewhere."