Charlie Bondhus

Michael McKeown Bondhus (born Charlie, 1981) is an American poet and author of four books. His second book, All the Heat We Could Carry, was the winner of the 2013 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, the 2014 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and a finalist for the Gival Press Poetry Book Award.

Early life and career He grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Saint Anselm College. He received his MFA from Goddard College and his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He served as poetry editor at The Good Men Project from 2013 to 2017, and currently teaches English and creative writing at Raritan Valley Community College.

His work has appeared in Poetry, The Missouri Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Baltimore Review, Copper Nickel, Bellevue Literary Review, and Cold Mountain Review, among others.

He is openly gay.