C.M. Chapman, Writer

Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, C.M. Chapman earned his Bachelors in English from West Virginia University in 1989.  After graduating, he worked for legendary radio man, Garry Bowers, as Production Director and Head Copywriter for WCLG Radio in Morgantown, a position he held for 23 years.

 

From 2005 to 2008, he contributed a weekly political opinion column called, "Poking the Bear," to Graffiti magazine, an alternative tabloid paper distributed throughout West Virginia.

 

After over twenty years in radio, Chapman began working in fiction again in 2012.  In 2013,  he garnered his first publication in the anthology, So It Goes: A Tribute to Kurt Vonnegut.  That same year, he enrolled in the outstanding low-residency MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan College, where he studied under the amazing tutelage of accomplished writers like Carter Sickels, Crystal Wilkinson, Richard Schmitt, and Marie Manilla.  West Virginia Wesleyan College awarded him the McKinney Teaching Fellowship hree times, and he taught there for four years.  He also serves as an associate fiction editor for Heartwood literary magazine.

 

Chapman's chapbook, Music & Blood was published in 2017 by Latham House Press.  His full-length collection, a novel-in-stories called Suicidal Gods is scheduled for release October 22, 2019 by Unsolicited Press. 

 

He is working on a new novel, and continues to work in the short form, as well.