Charles Degelman is a writer, editor, and publisher living in Los Angeles.

Degelman has written and produced documentary and educational films for TNT, Churchill Films, Pyramid Films, Philips Interactive Media, and others. Titles include a feature-length biography of filmmaker John Huston for TNT and an award-winning biography of Mozart for Philips Interactive.

His first screenplay, FIFTY-SECOND STREET, garnered an award from the Diane Thomas Competition.

His first novel, A Bowl Full of Nails, was a finalist in the Bellwether Competition, sponsored by Barbara Kingsolver. Impressions of two trips to Cuba have been published in Cuba by Travelers Tales. Excerpts from American Postcards, narrative snapshots of growing up absurd in the 1950s appear in ThriveNYC.

A longtime theater artist, Degelman co-founded the Indecent Exposure Theater Company (IndEx) with playwright Susan Rubin. IndEx is an ongoing, Los Angeles - based theater company dedicated to creating original, high-quality, socially relevant work for the stage.

Degelman recently completed Gates of Eden, a novel set during the anti-war movement of the 1960s. He serves as Editorial Director for Harvard Square Editions, a publishing house designed to cross national and cultural boundaries with contemporary, living fiction.

He is currently pursuing an MFA degree in Communications Studies (television, film, and theater, at California State University at Los Angeles.