A self-proclaimed desert rat, Chuck Etheridge was raised in El Paso, Texas.  After a stint in the US Navy keeping the coast of Southern California safe from the threat of enemy invasion, he attended the University of Texas at El Paso and Texas Christian University.  In addition to his time in the service, he has worked as an actor, a convenience store clerk, a Rent-a-Poet, and a catalog copy writer before finding respectable employment as an English teacher, first at McMurry University and, later, at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.  His poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction have been published in a variety of reviews and anthologized in a number of books, and he has written two plays that have been produced.  His first two novels, Border Canto and The Desert After Rain, were published by Fine Tooth Press.  A motion picture based on his Border Canto Trilogy is in development.   His comic novel Chagford Revisited was just published in the UK and is available in the States on Amazon.