Charles Rafferty

Charles Rafferty received an MFA from the University of Arkansas. He is the author of several books of poetry, including The Smoke of Horses (BOA Editions, 2017); A Less Fabulous Infinity (Louisiana Literature Press, 2006); and The Man on the Tower (University of Arkansas Press, 1995), which received the Arkansas Poetry Award.

Rafferty’s work, Lydia Davis writes, is “sometimes lyrical and ecstatic, sometimes funny and self-deprecating, sometimes wistful, but always beautifully precise….”

Rafferty is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. He codirects the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College and lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.