Charles Rice Gonzalez

Charles Rice-González, born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx, is a writer, long-time community and LGBTQ activist, co-founder of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance and an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Hostos Community College – City University of New York. He received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. His debut novel Chulito (Magnus Books 2011) has received nearly a dozen awards including a 2013 Stonewall Book Awards - Barbara Gittings Literature Award Honor from the American Library Association and a "Small Press Highlights" mention from the National Book Critics Circle. He co-edited From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction (Tincture/Lethe Press 2011). He’s the chair of the board for The Bronx Council on the Arts and The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, and serves on the Macondo Writing Workshop’s Advisory board.