Charles Rafferty is a poet and fiction writer whose work has appeared in such places as The New Yorker, O, Oprah Magazine, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and Ploughshares. His many books include The Smoke of Horses (prose poems) and Somebody Who Knows Somebody (flash fiction). He has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, as well as the 2016 NANO Fiction Prize. Currently, he co-directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College and teaches at the Westport Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.