Charles Porter

Charles Porter grew up in Stuart, Florida, on the St. Lucie River. The family home was the same old wooden house in which his father was born. He went to public school, then Catholic school, and graduated from Belmont Abbey College with a degree in philosophy. After traveling for two years around the U.S. in a camper pickup truck, he went to work in his father's lumber yard following his father's untimely death in 1963. In 1988, he sold the lumber company and became interested in the sport of dressage, an Olympic equestrian discipline, and now devotes much of his time to schooling, coaching, and the buying and selling of imported horses. He continues to write poetry and music, but in 2006 turned to prose. His first novel in the Hearing Voices series, Shallcross: The Blindspot Cathedral, won Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014 award. In 2017 he published, Flame Vine: His Voices, to critical acclaim, and in 2020, Shallcross: Animal Slippers came out and won Best Books of 2020 from Kirkus Reviews again. Porter lives in Loxahatchee, Florida and South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. He has one son, Michael, who is a circus performer and lives in Las Vegas. Learn more at: http://www.charlesporterauthor.com/