Casey Charles lives in Missoula, Montana and Palm Springs, California, where he writes across genres. His first book, The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial (2003), was nominated for a Publishing Triangle Award in nonfiction, and a collection of essays, Critical Queer Studies: Law, Film, and Fiction in Contemporary America followed in 2012. He is the author of two novels: The Trials of Christopher Mann and The Monkey Cages, which appeared from Lethe Press in 2018. He has also published two poetry chapbooks and a full collection entitled Zicatela.