Charles Oberndorf is the author of three novels published by Bantam Books: Sheltered Lives, Testing, and Foragers. He is a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop (1987), and he is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Grant. He has taught for 24 years at University School and he has conducted the Public Fiction WritersWorkshop at CSU for five different terms. He is currently writing the biographical novel of Abe Osheroff, a lifelong radical activist.