Charles Oberndorf is the author of three novels and three short stories. His novels, all published by Bantam Spectra, are Sheltered Lives (1992), Testing (1993), and Forager (1996). His short stories have appeared in Full Spectrum and Asimov's. Forthcoming (in theory) from HarperCollins is his fourth novel, The Translation of Desire, whose second chapter earned an Ohio Arts Council Grant in 1999. In progress: a fifth novel, The Opening and Closing of Eyes; a novella set in the universe of his short story "Oracle'; and a biographical novel about Abe Osheroff, a Spanish Civil War veteran and radical activist. Oberndorf is a graduate of Clarion East (1987). He teaches seventh-grade English at University School where he is the Chi Waggoner Chair in Middle School Writing.