[close] Charles Jensen is the Director of the Writer's Center, one of the largest independent literary centers in the United States. He holds an MFA in poetry from Arizona State University and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Leadership and Management. He is the author of three chapbooks, including Living Things, which won the 2006 Frank O’Hara chapbook award, and The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon, which is forthcoming in fall 2007 from New Michigan Press. He was a recipient of a 2007 Artist’s Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. His poetry has appeared in Bloom, The Journal, New England Review, spork, and West Branch. He is the founding editor of the online poetry magazine LOCUSPOINT, which explores creative work on a city-by-city basis. [close]