Charles Oberndorf is the author of three novels and three short stories. He has also written book reviews for The New York Review of Science Fiction, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and The Veteran: The Journal of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. His short stories have appeared in Full Spectrum (1988, 1989) and Asimov's (1996). His novels, all published by Bantam Spectra, are Sheltered Lives (1992), Testing (1993), and Foragers (1996). His fourth novel, The Translation of Desire is forthcoming (in theory) from HarperCollins; the second chapter earned an Ohio Arts Council Grant in 1999. In progress: a fifth novel, The Opening and Closing of Eyes, will return to the alien culture building practiced in Foragers; a novella and short story are set in the Hundred Worlds universe of "Oracle" (1996), and a series of mainstream short stories focus on moments of crises of a radical activist who was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War. Oberndorf is a graduate of Clarion East (1987). He teaches seventh grade English at University School where he is the Chi Waggoner Chair in Middle School Writing.