An independent bookstore and creative writing center in beautiful Port Orford, Oregon.

Charlie J. Stephens is a queer, non-binary writer from the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in Salem, Oregon, Charlie has lived all over the U.S. as a bike messenger, wilderness guide, high school English teacher, and seasonal shark diver (for educational purposes only.) They earned an M.A. from San Francisco State University in 2009. Resident of Port Orford on the southern Oregon coast, they are the owner of Sea Wolf Books & Community Writing Center. Charlie's short fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, Best Small Fictions Anthology, New World Writing, Original Plumbing/Feminist Press, and elsewhere. Their debut novel, "A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest" was published by Torrey House Press in April 2024. It was long-listed for The Center For Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize, and is a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards/Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the Indie Foreword Award in LGBTQ+ fiction. Their new collection of short stories will be published by Buckman in early March, 2026. More at charliejstephenswriting.com.