An Interview with Carolyn Charron
I finally get the opportunity to interview Carolyn Charron and we talk about ageing in fiction, disability, historical fiction, pirates, short stories, and so much more.
Carolyn Charron is a speculative fiction writer who’s always wanted to be a pirate or a wizard preferably with a dragon companion. Her short stories have appeared Renaissance Press’ Nothing Without Us, an anthology of disabled writers nominated for a 2020 Prix Aurora award and in three of Flame Tree Publishing’s Gothic Fantasy anthologies among others. On the editor’s side of her desk, she read slush for Apex, Lightspeed, and Nightmare Magazines and has been a juror for Speculative Literature Foundation grants.
She was fortunate to receive a Recommender Grant from Ontario Arts Council (OAC) to write “Hunting a Sea-Glass Heart“, the first book in a series following a family of women pirates. The third novel in this series about a blacksmith and her magical power over metals has received both OAC Recommender grants and a Toronto Arts Council grant.
She lives in Toronto with her husband and two children and is still waiting on her dragon companion.
https://www.facebook.com/carolyncharronauthor/
Interviewed by Derek Newman-Stille (MA, PhD ABD) (they/them)
