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CHUCK ROSENTHAL

WHAT BOOKS PRESS TITLES: 
Are We Not There Yet?
Coyote O'Donohughe's History of Texas
West of Eden
Tomorrow You'll Be One of Us

CHUCK ROSENTHAL was born in Erie, Pennsylvania.  He attended Allegheny College, Bowling Green State University, SUNY Buffalo, and the University of California, Davis, where he earned several advanced degrees.  He earned a Ph.D. in English and American literature with emphasis in creative writing and narrative theory from the University of Utah. 

Rosenthal is the author of eight novels:  the Loop Trilogy: Loop’s Progress, Experiments with Life and Deaf, and Loop’s End; Elena of the Stars; Avatar Angel, the Last Novel of Jack Kerouac; My Mistress Humanity; The Heart of Mars; and the current Coyote O’Donohughe’s History of Texas.  He has published a memoir, Never Let Me Go, and most recently a travel book, Are We Not There Yet?  Travels in Nepal, North India, and Bhutan (Magic Journalism).  In the fall of 2012 he published his second book of Magic Journalism, West of Eden: A Life in 21st Century Los Angeles. His novel Ten Thousand Heavens was published in 2013 by Whitepoint Press.

He’s published in numerous journals, listed below, and read and lectured at universities and on television and radio throughout the U.S. as well as in Mexico and Argentina.

Rosenthal first moved to northern California in 1978 and has lived in Los Angeles since 1986. He began riding horses in 1994 at the age of 43 and purchased his first horse, Jackie O, an Arab-Thoroughbred bay mare, in 1995.  She died on January 17, 2009, at the age of 22.  His new horse, La Femme Nikita, is a Buckskin Morgan mare, age 8.  He tries to ride six days a week.

Rosenthal played basketball in college and learned to surf upon arriving in LA.  He crossed Canada and the U.S. on a 400 Suzuki in 1982, but stopped motorcycling last year.  Besides horseback riding he enjoys running with his dog and swimming. 

Rosenthal lives in Topanga Canyon with his partner, the poet Gail Wronsky. Their daughter, Marlena Dali, moved to Sydney, Australia, in August 2010 to pursue her career in performance art.

Journals where Rosenthal’s short fiction and essays have appeared include California Quarterly, New Kent Quarterly, Minotaur, Quarterly West, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Chicago Review, Western Humanities Review, Santa Monica Review, High Performance, Denver Quarterly, See, Volt, 88, the Norton Anthology of Flash Fiction, the Dove-Penguin anthology Absolute Disaster, and Luvina in Guadalajara. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the PEN West literary award and numerous national book prizes for fiction and non-fiction.  His screenplay Cowboys and Angels was a finalist for the Sundance Institute. He has been fiction editor of the  Los Angeles Review. “My Chicken, Obsidian” has appeared in The Offending Adam and “East of Hollywood” in Shimmyhoots; each are chapters from his 2012 book, West of Eden.

LINKS AND OTHER WORKS
Author Website
Whitepoint Press
Hollyridge Press
Red Hen Press
The Heart of Mars Review