about

Charlie Anders blogs about science fiction and futurism at io9.com. She's the author of Choir Boy, a novel, and the co-editor of She's Such A Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology And Other Nerdy Stuff. She organizes the Writers With Drinks reading series in San Francisco, now in its eighth year, and she co-founded other magazine. Her writing has appeared in Mother Jones, Salon.com, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, the SF Bay Guardian, ZYZZYVA, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Monkey Bicycle, Pindeldyboz and many anthologies (see below).

read my writing

Choir Boy
(Soft Skull Press 2005).
Lambda Literary Award winner.
Edmund White Award finalist

Listen to a podcast of a reading from the book.
Soft Skull page
New York Press review
SF Chronicle review
Books To Watch Out For
Austin Chronicle review
Bitch review


She's Such A Geek
Edited by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders (Seal Press 2007).

official website
WGBH Podcast
WNYC Podcast
RU Sirius podcast



other magazine
publisher and regular contributor.

other magazine blog
SF Chronicle article
Boston Phoenix article

I Was A Monkey Frightener!, issue 10
Feminist Vice, issue 7
Sexual Fundamentalism, issue 5
The Boundary Police, issue 3
The Opposite of Ethnic Cleansing, issue 2


The McSweeney's Joke Book Of Book Jokes
(Random House 2008)

A Serial Killer Explains The Distinctions Between Literary Terms










Sex For America
(Harper Collins 2008)

Transfixed, Helpless and Out Of Control: Election Year 2004










The Monkey Bicycle Dirty Humor Anthology
(Dzanc Books 2008)

Beware The Bukkake Cultural Appropriation Squad!










Fucking Daphne
(Seal Press 2008)

Uppercasing












McSweeney's Internet Tendency
A Serial Killer Explains The Distinctions Between Literary Terms

ZYZZYVA
The Next Best Thing To Kindness

Fresh Yarn
The Week Of Rental Car Disasters

Flurb
One Door Closes

Greatest Uncommon Denominator
Cutting A Figure, issue 0

Pindeldyboz
Folly

Strange Horizons
Horatius & Clodia
Not To Mention Jack

Skinny Magazine
I've Got The Music In Me

Ping Pong
Polyamory Hell, issue 1


Paraspheres: Fabulist And New Wave Fabulist Stories
(Omnidawn 2006)

Power Couple, Or Love Never Sleeps





Pills Chills Thrills and Heartaches Edited by Clint Catalyst and Michelle Tea

I Am So Smart





It's All Good Edited by Jennifer Joseph

How To Draw Your Favorite Monsters








That's Revolting Edited by Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore

Choice Cuts






Instant City
All The Lonely People, Why Don't They Just Fuck Off?, issue 2





The Anti-Capitalism Reader Edited by Joel Schalit

Mama Cash: Buying and Selling Genders







San Francisco Chronicle
The Monk Upstairs Review
My Lives review


San Francisco Bay Guardian
Nurturing The Drive, 01/09/07
Turn The Page, 11/29/2006
Sex and Romance essay, 7/27/05
Love City, 6/23/04
Independent Reading, 10/15/03
Clown School, 8/13/03
Book reviews: Transparent, Sexual Metamorphoses,



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