Charlie V%C3%A1zquez
Charlie Vzquez is a Bronx bornandraised, selfidentified queer American artist, writer, and musician of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. He is also the editor of Fireking Press, where he has published a novel and a book of short stories. His fiction, erotica and essays have appeared in a number of anthologies, magazines, and websites. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner, poet John Williams.
Vzquez was born at Fordham Hospital in the Bronx, New York, on May 14, 1971, to a CubanPuerto Rican mother and Puerto Rican father. His earliest years were spent in the turbulent, disinvested East Tremont neighborhood of the Bronx, where his parents befriended several members of the Reapers, a notorious South Bronx street gang. His family then moved north, to the Fordham neighborhood, where he became fascinated by a small white house in a nearby park. That old cottage would turn out to be Edgar Allan Poes final home. Vzquez feels that Poes prose had a strong impact on him as a young reader. Before divorcing in 1981, his parents moved the family east, to Allerton Avenue and White Plains Road, where Vzquez attended the Richard Rodgers School , Whalen Junior High School and Christopher Columbus High School, where he served as a key trumpet player in orchestras and jazz bands.
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