Chuck Kinder

Chuck Kinder is the author of four novels-- Snakehunter, The Silver Ghost, Honeymooners, and Last Mountain Dancer --and three collections of poetry-- Imagination Motel, All That Yellow, and Hot Jewels. As a professor of creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh for more than three decades, Kinder served as the director of the creative writing program and helped foster the careers of Michael Chabon, Earl H. McDaniel, Chuck Rosenthal, Gretchen Moran Laskas, and Keely Bowers. He now lives...See more

Chuck Kinder is the author of four novels-- Snakehunter, The Silver Ghost, Honeymooners, and Last Mountain Dancer --and three collections of poetry-- Imagination Motel, All That Yellow, and Hot Jewels. As a professor of creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh for more than three decades, Kinder served as the director of the creative writing program and helped foster the careers of Michael Chabon, Earl H. McDaniel, Chuck Rosenthal, Gretchen Moran Laskas, and Keely Bowers. He now lives in Key Largo, Florida, with Diane Cecily, his wife of over forty years. See less