Charles Fishman served as director of the SUNY Farmingdale Visiting Writers Program for 18 years and created the Paumanok Poetry Award in 1990. His books include Mortal Companions, The Firewalkers, Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, and The Death Mazurka, which was selected by the American Library Association as one of the outstanding books of the year (1989) and nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He has received the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize from Southern California Anthology, the Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Prize from Negative Capability, a fellowship in poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and numerous other awards and honors.
He was final judge for the 1998 Capricorn Book Award and has recently served as Poetry Editor for the Journal of Genocide Studies and Cistercian Studies Quarterly (following Denise Levertov in that position). His online editing includes stints as Associate Editor of The Drunken Boat and Poetry Editor of Gaia.
His work was featured in Midnight Mind Number Three.