{"id":3315,"date":"2023-12-05T11:26:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T16:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/?post_type=directory&#038;p=3315"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:27:13","slug":"charles-israel-jr-mfa","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/campus-directory\/charles-israel-jr-mfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Israel, Jr., M.F.A."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Israel, Jr. is a writer who teaches. Charles writes flash fiction, traditional short stories, and lyric poems. If he&#8217;s captivated by a character, he writes flash or stories; if language is driving his imagination, he writes poems. Before he started teaching, Charles worked as a journalist. He was an indexer at <em>National Geographic<\/em>, a staff writer for <em>The Elkin Tribune<\/em>, and a copy boy for <em>The Columbia Record<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he&#8217;s not writing or teaching, he&#8217;s working out, playing tennis, and riding his red bicycle around town. He lives in the Plaza-Midwood neighborhood of Charlotte with his wife, Leslie McCray. His daughter, Elizabeth Israel, lives in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles&#8217;s poetry chapbook, <em>Stacking Weather<\/em>, won the Flip Kelly Award from Amsterdam Press. His flash fiction, short stories, and poems have appeared in national journals such as <em>The Cortland Review<\/em>, <em>Field<\/em>, <em>Crazyhorse<\/em>, <em>Zone 3<\/em>, <em>Pembroke Magazine<\/em>, <em>Eleven Eleven<\/em>, <em>Nimrod International Journal<\/em>, <em>North Carolina Literary Review<\/em>, <em>South Carolina Review<\/em>, <em>Waccamaw Journal<\/em>, and the <em>Journal of the American Medical Association<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography Charles Israel, Jr. is a writer who teaches. Charles writes flash fiction, traditional short stories, and lyric poems. If he&#8217;s captivated by a character, he writes flash or stories; if language is driving his imagination, he writes poems. Before he started teaching, Charles worked as a journalist. He was an indexer at National Geographic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3315","directory","type-directory","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/3315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/directory"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/3315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/3315\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}