Charles TidlerCharles Tidler is an award-winning playwright, poet, novelist and spoken jazz artist. His plays Blind Dancers and Straight Ahead have been produced in Canada, the US, and London. Other plays include The Butcher's Apron, Red Mango: A Blues, and Tortoise Boy: A Chamber Play. He is of the author of the poetry collection, Straw Things (Ekstasis Editions, 2008) and of the novel, Going to New Orleans (Anvil Press, 2004). Most recently, he is the author of HARD HED (Anvil Press, 2011). Charles was born in Ohio and grew up in Indiana. He studied literature and philosophy with William Gass and Barriss Mills at Purdue University, before moving permanently to the West Coast of Canada. Read More Read Less