History of ChaffinCe

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28 February 1999

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C.E. Chaffin received his B.A. in English in 1976 from UCLA (Summa Cum Laudanum, Fine Bit-A-Krappa), winning "The Edward Niles Hooker Award for Outstanding Achievement in English" (top prize for students in the honors program, in which he wasn't). He also served as poetry editor of Goldenwest Literary Magazine and Carrion while at Goldenwest College, rudely abusing his office to print some of his most execrable poems. Books: Elementary (poems), Edwin Mellen Press, 1997, available through Amazon.com. Sine Wave (poems, to be published when the author can find someone willing to publish a hardcover.)

Poetry credits: too many to list. Everything from The Alaska Quarterly Review and Byline (print) to Ygdrasil and Zuzu's Petals (on-line). Stories: countless submitted, ten published. Presently a book-length collection of short stories, The Eric Chronicles, is being serialized in Savoy (on-line) where he also contributes a regular column. Criticism: "An Alternative Term for Post-Modern Poetry" and "Introduction to Logopoetry" published in The Cortland Review and The Melic Review (two of an eight-part series). "Logopoetry III: The Mandala of Balance" to be published in Melic March '99 and in Beehive mid-April. Ancillary degrees: M.D. 1980, FAAFP 1994 (Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians), Assistant Professor of Family Medicine U.C. Irvine.

Dr. Chaffin has three daughters: 21, 19, and 10-- his chief earthly joys. Rachel and Keturah attend college and Sarah attends elementary school and likes to sing at karaoke bars. On weekends, at least, they live with their parents in a high rise overlooking the Pacific.

Note: CE badly needs an agent because he doesn't know how to generate any income from his writing. Except for the rare token payment he works for nothing (good karma maybe but bad economics). Lucky for him his wife, Katherine, is gainfully employed as a schoolteacher since he doesn't practice medicine at present, living out his dream of becoming a writer. Always becoming.