Based in Australia, Charlie Winter is an academic by day and, by night, still an academic but much more distractible about it.
When not performing the inexplicable rituals of academia, he writes fantasy fiction celebrating everyday magic, positive masculinities, eco-optimism, and queer identities.
Bark & Bone Contribution
Rewild Me is a poignant memoir that discusses small town cruelty, trans identity and the ecological concept of rewilding. Here’s a snippet:
Some in my life start calling me a thing, once I challenge their notions of the me they prefer. If I can’t be the pink dress girl, the bookish one, the quiet corner, then they don’t want me to be at all. Better to be grief. It’s easier to say ‘I’m sad because my daughter has died’ than ‘I’m sad because I don’t think I can love my son the same’.
I can’t escape damnation at the scene of the crime, standing victorious over my own still-bleeding murder. So I claim my death as my own.
Space Cat Press 