Chuck Rosenthal was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and has lived in the western U.S. since 1979. He's the author of seven published novels and a memoir. The novels: Loop's Progress, Experiments with Life and Deaf, Loop's End (the Loop Trilogy), Elena of the Stars, Avatar Angel: The Last Novel of Jack Kerouac, My Mistress Humanity, and The Heart of Mars. The memoir: Never Let Me Go.

His work has been nominated for The National Book Award, The PEN West Award for Fiction, the PEN International Award for Fiction, the Critics Book Circle Award for Fiction, the American Library Association Most Notable Book Award, and for Best American Creative Non-fiction. He is a three time winner of the Utah Arts Council Award for Fiction. He has given readings, lectures, classes, and interviews, live as well as on radio and television, nationally and internationally. His work has appeared in dozens of literary magazines and anthologies such as The Santa Monica Review, Volt, The Denver Quarterly, See, Chicago Review, California Quarterly, Chattahoochee Review, VERB, The Pocket Field Guide, Absolute Disaster, Silent Voices, Quarterly West, Hayden's Ferry Review, Western Humanities Review, Along the Lake, and others.