Charles Freeland lives in Dayton, Ohio where he is Professor of English at Sinclair Community College. Twice the recipient of the Individual Excellence Award in poetry from the Ohio Arts Council (2008 & 2010), he is the author of two book-length poems -- Eucalyptus (Otoliths Books, 2011) and  Eros & (Fill in the Blank) (BlazeVox Books, 2009) -- the collection Through the Funeral Mountains on a Burro (Otoliths Books, 2009), as well as the chapbooks Variations on a Theme by Spinoza (Red Ceilings Press, 2011), Five Perfect Solids (White Knuckle Press, 2011), Deviled Ham and a Picture of Jesus: Twenty Grubb Tales (Finishing Line Press, 2011), Chilean Sea Bass is Really Just Patagonian Toothfish (Differentia Press, 2010), Eulalie & Squid (Chippens Press, 2009), Furiant, Not Polka (Moria, 2008), The Case of the Danish King Halfdene (Mudlark, 2008), and Where We Saw Them Last (Lily Press, 2007).

His work has appeared in many literary journals, both in print and on-line, including ditch, Jubilat, Cricket Online Review, The Iowa Review, Moria, Main Street Rag, Sous Rature, The Mid-American Review, eskimo pie, BlazeVOX, Spinning Jenny, Thirteen Myna Birds, The Threepenny Review, Mad Hatters Review, Knock, new south, Margie, Otoliths, Cream City Review, Bombay Gin, Fact-Simile, Offcourse, 580 Split, The Hollins Critic, Painted Bride Quarterly, Harpur Palate, Juked, 42opus, Poetry International, The Cimarron Review, The Cincinnati Review, Counterexample Poetics, Tusculum Review, Poetry Northwest, Shadowtrain, Carolina Quarterly, and Great Works.

His poem "The Case of the Danish King Halfdene" was listed on Web Del Sol's Escene 38: Best of the Literary Journals.