Charles Dodd White was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1976. He currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina where he teaches writing and Literature at South College. He has been a Marine, a flyfishing guide and a newspaper journalist. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Collagist, Fugue, Night Train, North Carolina Literary Review, PANK, Word Riot and several others. His novel Lambs of Men, a story of a Marine Corps veteran of World War I in Western North Carolina, will be published by Casperian Books in November 2010. He is also co-editor of the contemporary Appalachian anthology, Degrees of Elevation, which will appear in late 2010. He is currently at work on another novel and a collection of short stories.