Chuck Wachtel

Chuck Wachtel's books include Because We Are Here, a collection of short stories and novellas, and the novels Joe the Engineer, which won the PEN/Hemingway Citation and The Gates. He is also the author of The Coriolis Effect and, most recently, What Happens to Me, a collection of poems and short prose. He has taught at Purdue University, Sarah Lawrence College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.