Charlotte O'Brien

Charlotte O’Brien was born and raised in England until the age of twelve. She moved to Australia with her family shortly before her thirteenth birthday. She earned her BA at Griffith University in Australia and followed her parents to the U.S. when she was twenty-one.

Charlotte now resides in Half Moon Bay with her family, but thinks of herself as a San Francisco native. She is the mother of a teenager and a toddler. She is the poetry editor for Spilt Infinitive Digital Literary Magazine.

Charlotte completed the Master Poetry Class at USC in 2003 and studied poetry at Charles University in Prague through the USC program of Professional Writing. She has an MFA in poetry and nonfiction from Pacific University, Oregon.

Charlotte is a former co-host for Feminist Magazine on KPFK and a performer and staff writer for LitRave. She was the featured poet at many venues throughout Southern California, including the LA Times Festival of Books and the Jane Crown Poetry Radio. Her work has appeared in online Zines such as: Heavy Bear, Poetic Diversity, Moonday and Apercus Quarterly. Her poetry is published in journals such as The Southern Californian Anthology, Cider Press Review, LA Melange and Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets Anthology.

Charlotte had her first poem published in a girly teen magazine at the age of ten. She loves to read books, and derives deep satisfaction from the smell of the printed word on paper. She thinks books smell almost better than her daughter's skin. She'd take looking at the moon over watching the ocean, but prefers to do both at the same time.