Charles Doersch's poems have appeared in the US, UK and Australia in such journals as The New Criterion, The Hudson Review, Edinburgh Review, Measure, and The Shit Creek Review among others. His manuscript No Other Wings was finalist for The New Criterion Prize. Editor of the book, Your Life in Poems, he has written articles for a range of educational publications. He teaches rhetoric and composition for the University of Colorado at Boulder. When he and the two men of his life are not engaged in other adventures, they live on St. John in the US Virgin Islands.