Charles B. Fancher is the author of the award-winning novel, Red Clay, an editor, and a former senior corporate communications executive for The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He has also worked as a journalist for The Inquirer and the Detroit Free Press. Fancher was previously a member of the School of Communications faculty at Howard University and the adjunct faculty at Temple University. He lives in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains.