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The Editor

Charlie Perseus (he/they) spends his time attempting to paint the devil with words— when he isn’t busy with graduate school or editing warning lines literary. He wrote the poetry chapbooks PLACES (Gutslut Press, 2022), and AUTHOR OF ALL ILL (fifth wheel press, 2023), and has been featured in The NoSleep Podcast, the HELL IS REAL Anthology, and others. His work is often connected to his own transness, Otherness, and monstrosity. Find him on twitter @beelzebadger.

Currently, he's pursuing an MA in Anglophone Literature at Karlstad University and other universities in Sweden, where he lives with his cat and most of his friends in a very unusual queer collective. Most recently, he worked on a thesis related to human monstrosity in contemporary gothic fiction.

Charlie's editorial decisions and his own creative practice are often grounded upon his academic interests. Some of Charlie’s favorite areas, themes, and approaches to explore are: the gothic, the Dionysian, the monstrous, trans studies, critical discourse analysis, queer theory, intersectionality, and the satanic (particularly Miltonic and Queer satanisms). Because of his own experiences of marginalization due to being trans, queer, Latino, multiply disabled, and an immigrant, Charlie (and therefore warning lines) highly values social and political justice, anti-discrimination, anti-racism, and all other defiances against the oppressive cisheteronormative, ableist, white supremacist systems on which the current world operates.

If you’d like to get to know more of his work, try the following (free to access):

“L’Appel du Vide” — audio script, audio adaptation by The NoSleep Podcast (2022)

“ad inferos” —  poetry, The Minison Project (2022) [NOMINATED FOR PUSHCART PRIZE]

“Husktown, USA” — horror flash fiction, The HELL IS REAL Anthology (2022)

“On Being Caught by ICE and Caged” – creative non-fiction, The Bitchin' Kitsch's All My Relations Vol. 2 (2022), [NOMINATED FOR BEST OF THE NET]

“A Morbid Longing for the Picturesque”: The Pursuit of Beauty in Donna Tartt's The Secret History – Research paper, Södertörns Univesity via DiVA (2021)

“She Watches Me” – Horror short story, audio adaptation by The NoSleep Podcast, (2021)

​“fated endings” & “sunrise” – poetry, The Midnight Mass Anthology (2021)

books

as editor, layout designer, and/or project manager

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The Midnight Mass Anthology

2021

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The High Voltage Anthology

2022

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Cutbow Quarterly

2022 -       

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warning lines literary

2021 -       

as author

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The One and the Other

2021

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BETWEEN DEATH & FLIGHT

2022

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PLACES

2022
Gutslut Press

AUTHOR OF
ALL ILL

2023
fifth wheel press

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experience & education

education

Bachelor of Arts in English Studies - Literary Specialization
Södertörns University


Master of Arts in Anglophone Literature
Karlstad University

August 2019 - January 2022



August 2022 -  Present

positions & projects

Founder & Editor 

warning lines literary

Layout Designer 

Cutbow Quarterly

Horror Flash Fiction Ghostwriter

Undisclosed client Youtube channel

Co-editor, project co-manager, web designer

High Voltage Anthology

 

Co-editor, project co-manager, web designer

Midnight Mass Anthology

 


Managing Editor & Reader 

the winnow magazine

April 2021 - Present

July 2022  -  Present

March 2022 - June 2022

December 2021 - March 2022 

 

October 2021 - December 2021

 


June 2021 - December 2021

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