Chuck Carlise is the author of the poetry collection, In One Version of the Story (New Issues Press), as well as the chapbooks, A Broken Escalator Still Isn’t the Stairs (winner of the Concrete Wolf Poetry Series) and Casual Insomniac (Bateau, winner of the Boom Chapbook Prize).  His poems and essays appear in numerous journals and anthologies, including Pleiades, Southern Review, DIAGRAM, Zyzzyva, and twice in Best New Poets.

He teaches at Ashland University as Assistant Professor of English, faculty member in the Ashland M.F.A., and Director of the Ashland Poetry Press.