Charles Porter was born in 1944 and grew up in Stuart, Florida, on the St. Lucie River. The family home was the same old wooden house in which his father was born. He went to work in his father's lumber yard following his father's untimely death in 1963. In 1988, he sold the lumber company and pursued his interested in the sport of dressage, an Olympic equestrian discipline. He now devotes much of his time to the schooling, coaching, buying and selling of imported horses. He continues to write poetry and music, but in 2012 turned to prose. Shallcross: The Blindspot Cathedral, won Kirkus Best Book of 2014 award. In 2017 he published Flame Vine: His Voices, to critical acclaim, and in 2020 he published, Shallcross: Animal Slippers and won Best Books of 2020 from Kirkus again. Porter lives in Loxahatchee, Florida and South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. He has one son, Michael, who is a circus performer and lives in Las Vegas.