Charles Coe is the author of five books of poetry: "All Sins Forgiven: Poems for my Parents," "Picnic on the Moon," "Memento Mori," "Purgatory Road" and "Charles Coe: New and Selected Works," all published by Leapfrog Press. He is also author of 2014's "Spin Cycles," a novella published by Gemma Media that tells the story of a homeless man surviving on the streets of Boston.
Coe was a 2017 artist-in-residence for the city of Boston, where he created an oral history project focused on residents of Mission Hill. He has been named a "Literary Light" by the associates of the Boston Public Library. He is an adjunct professor at Salve Regina and at Bay Path University, where he teaches in both MFA writing programs. He serves on the steering committee of the Boston chapter of the National Writers Union, a labor union that serves freelance writers.