Charles Jensen

Charles Jensen (he/him) is the author of the hybrid book Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres, in which each chapter braids together traditional memoir storytelling with insightful discussions of a single film. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Instructions between Takeoff and Landing, and seven chapbooks. The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs designated him a 2019-2020 Cultural Trailblazer, and he is the recipient of the 2020 Outwrite Nonfiction Chapbook Award, 2018 Zócalo Poetry Prize, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, the Frank O’Hara Chapbook Award, and an Artist’s Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. His poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Journal, New England Review, and Prairie Schooner, and essays have appeared in 45th Parallel, American Literary Review, Exposition Review, The Florida Review, and Passages North. He hosts The Write Process, a podcast in which one writer tells the story of crafting one work from concept to completion. He lives in Los Angeles and directs the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension.