Charles Degelman is a writer and editor. He currently teaches narrative and dramatic writing at California State University, Los Angeles.

Previously, Degelman served as staff writer and editor at a Los Angeles-based educational organization while he produced original work for the stage and wrote fiction, screenplays, and political commentary.

After graduating Harvard, Degelman left academia to become an antiwar activist, political theater artist, musician, communard, carpenter, hard-rock miner, and itinerant gypsy trucker. He settled in the Bay Area where he became artist-in-residence with the San Francisco Arts commission.

Recent work includes Gates of Eden, a '60s novel of resistance, rebellion, and love, garnered a silver medal from the 2012 Independent Publishers Book Awards. 

A Bowl Full of Nails, set in the counterculture of the 1970s, was a finalist in the Bellwether Competition, sponsored by Barbara Kingsolver and will be published by Harvard Square Editions in February, 2015.

Impressions of two trips to Cuba have been published in Cuba by Travelers Tales.

In 2010, Degelman edited A Voice From the Planet, a globe-trotting collection of short fiction, published by Harvard Square Editions.

Degelman moved to Los Angeles to co-found Indecent Exposure, a Los Angeles-based theater company dedicated to creating original, high-quality work for the stage.

He lives in the Hollywood Hills with his playwright wife and four cats.