Charles Harvey

Charles Harvey writes about the lives people hide — and what those hidden lives cost them.

In his fiction, poetry, and plays, Harvey explores the divide between who we are in public and who we are in the dark. His characters are contradictory, compelling, and uncomfortably human — Black men navigating desire and danger, women confronting betrayal, souls caught between who they were raised to be and who they actually are.

A PEN Award-winning author whose work has appeared in Story Magazine and numerous anthologies, Harvey has been writing and publishing since the 1980s. He lives and writes in Houston, Texas.