Charlie Geer

A native of Charleston, Charlie Geer now lives in southern Spain. He has studied under Padgett Powell, David Leavitt, and Josh Russell. His work has appeared in the Threepenny Review, Tin House, the Southern Review, The Sun, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. His first novel, Outbound: The Curious Secession of Latter-Day Charleston, was published by River City Publishing in 2005, and won an Independent Publishers Award for Regional Fiction. Geer has received fellowships from the University of Florida and the South Carolina Academy of Authors, and he is a past winner of the South Carolina Fiction Project and the Piccolo Fiction Open.