Charlene Fix’s poetry collections are Habitat of Ghosts (2026 Broadstone Books), Jewgirl (Broadstone Books 2023), Taking a Walk in My Animal Hat (Bottom Dog Press 2018), Frankenstein’s Flowers (CW Books 2014), and Flowering Bruno: a Dography (XOXOX Press 2006). Her chapbooks are Mischief (Pudding House 2002) and Charlene Fix: Greatest Hits (Kattywompus 2012). Her prose homage/film criticism is Harpo Marx as Trickster (McFarland 2013). She has published poems in Poetry, Literary Imagination, JAMA, The Journal, Cincinnati Review, The New Ohio Review, Mudfish, and The Manhattan Review, among other literary magazines, has received grants from The Ohio and the Greater Columbus Arts Councils, and once upon a time won the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award and the Louis Hammer Memorial Award from The Poetry Society of America. Emeritus Professor of English at Columbus College of Art and Design, Charlene co-coordinates Hospital Poets at the Ohio State University Medical Center, works for peace and social justice, and is the mother of three and grandmother of two. Her website is charlenefix.com