Christopher Brookhouse's 1970 novel, Running Out, won the prestigious Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2005, his story collection, Fog, won the biennial New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Work of Fiction. He lives in Sanibel, Florida, and Asheville, North Carolina, where his wife, Anne Ponder is the Chancellor of UNC Asheville. He is also the owner of the publishing house Safe Harbor Books.