Charles Rafferty is an American poet. In 2009 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. [1] His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker , O: Oprah Magazine , Prairie Schooner , and Ploughshares , among other magazines, websites, and anthologies. [2] He co-directs Albertus Magnus College's MFA in Creative Writing program, and teaches at the Westport Writers’ Workshop. [3] As of 2021, he lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. [3]
Rafferty had aspired to being a poet since high school. [4] He began writing fiction around his late forties. [4] He views himself as someone who "primarily...writes impressionistic, associative prose poems." [4]