Aside from The Faith of Children, Charles Hughes is the author of three previous poetry collections, The Evening Sky (2020) and Cave Art (2014), both from Wiseblood Books, and Ifs, a Few Buts, and Other Stuff (2024), a book of poems for children from Kelsay Books. His poems have appeared in various journals and magazines and are included in the anthologies, Taking Root in the Heart (2023) from Paraclete Press and An Outcast Age (2021) from Little Gidding Press.

He was born in Chicago, Illinois, earned undergraduate and law degrees from Augustana College, in Rock Island, Illinois, and Northwestern University, respectively, and worked as a lawyer for over thirty years. He received the Edgar Bowers Award from the Georgia Poetry Society and has been a River Readings poet at Augustana College and a Walter E. Dakin Poetry Fellow at the Sewanee Writers Conference. He lives in the Chicago area.

Watch Charles read his poem “October Friday”