Charles McGregor is a twenty-four year old Florida native. In August, 2010 he graduated from Florida Southern College with a B.A. in English. While at Florida Southern, he won the Ryals’ Award for the best poem and short story in the campuses literary journal, Cantilevers. During his college tenure he also had a poem, titled “Red Herring,†published on the literary website Xenith.net. Shortly after graduating Charles went overseas to teach English in the country of Turkmenistan for the U. S. Peace Corps. He is currently attending the University of Texas-Pan American’s MFA Creative Writing program.