Charles Dodd White was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1976. He currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina where he teaches English at South College, and is on the creative writing staff of the Hindman Settlement School's Appalachian Writers Workshop. He has been a Marine, a fishing guide and a journalist. He is author of the novel, Lambs of Men, the forthcoming short story collection, Sinners of Sanction County, and co-editor of the contemporary Appalachian anthology, Degrees of Elevation. In 2011 he was awarded a fellowship in prose from the North Carolina Arts Council. His fiction has appeared in Appalachian Heritage, The Collagist, Fugue, Night Train, North Carolina Literary Review, PANK, Word Riot and several others. He also frequently contributes to Rain Taxi Book Review. He is currently at work on another novel.