About
Charlie Sorrenson grew up in Indiana and Aotearoa New Zealand and received his MFA from UC Irvine, where his stories won Honorable Mention for the Henfield Prize.
His work is published or forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Passages North, among other publications. His chapbook of stories, Walk on Your Knees, was a finalist for the 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition.
A 2025 Vermont Studio Center Fellow, 2024 Mountain Words Writer in Residence, and 2023 Lambda Literary Scholar, Charlie is also a proud alum of workshops at Tin House, Community of Writers, and Clarion.
He is currently at work on two novels.
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Photo credit: ’Pemi AgudaWriting
“Wolf Whistle”
Forthcoming from Passages North
Spring 2027
“The Thing About Breasts”
The Iowa Review
November 2025
Purchase Volume 55 Issue 2
“Circles, Triangles, Squares”
Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading
October 2024
Read here
“Ideal Customers”
Michigan Quarterly Review
August 2024
Read an excerpt and purchase Issue 63.3
“Flight”
PodCastle (reprint)
April 2024
Listen here
“Fuckboys”
Apogee
October 2023
Read here