About Charisse.  

Charisse published her first short story as a teenager, launching a freelance career which continues today. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and a Secondary Teaching Credential at California State University, Long Beach where she was a CSU Graduate Novella Award Nominee. Later she worked as the Editor of Sun Newspapers in Seal Beach. In addition to her journalistic works, her stories have been published in The Masters Review Volume IX, The Best Stories by Emerging Writers of 2020, Journeax Art and Story House and is a 2020 winner of the Owl Canyon Press Short Story Hackathon #4 An Odd Sized Casket. 

Her passion for educational outreach has led her to teach Creative Nonfiction at Idyllwild Arts Academy, Outdoor Education in Big Bear, Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) at Redondo Union High School, Great Writing at South Bay Adult School and Horseback Riding in Kings Canyon National Park. Currently she is adapting her short story "Where the Last Grizzly was Murdered" into a contemporary screenplay with Director David Stoddart. She lives with her husband and two children in the South Bay where she loves to run the hills of Palos Verdes and swim with family and friends in her birthplace waters of Laguna Beach. ​