About the Author
Literary
Bio
Charles Entrekin was born in 1941 in Birmingham, Alabama,. He took his BA in English from Birmingham Southern College, in 1964. He left Birmingham in 1965 and lived in various states (New York , Tennessee, Alabama, and Montana) while pursuing advanced degrees in philosophy and creative writing. Arriving in California in 1969, he fell in love with the West Coast scene and the Hotel California experience. He now lives in Berkeley with his wife, poet, Gail Rudd Entrekin.
Charles has taught at almost every educational level. He taught pre-school language skills to six-year-olds with he Head Start program in Birmingham, Alabama; taught introduction to set theory to disadvantaged high school graduates with the Upward Bound Program in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; taught composition, English literature, creative writing, philosophy at the college level, and was the founder of the Creative Writing Program at John F. Kennedy University’s Orinda, California campus.
For 24 years, Charles was the managing editor of The Berkeley Poets Cooperative and The Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press. The story of the Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press was written up as the cover story in the August 29, 1976 issue of the New York Times Magazine.
The Managing Editor of Hip Pocket Press (www.hippocketpress.com), Charles is also the author of: In This Hour, a collection of poems, BPW&P, 1990; Casting For The Cutthroat & Other Poems, BPW&P, 1986; Casting For The Cutthroat, Thunder City Press, 1978, Birmingham, Alabama; All Pieces Of A Legacy, BPW&P, 1975, Berkeley, CA.
Charles novel, Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama, 1965, will be published May, 2008, by El Leon Literary Arts www.elleonliteraryarts.org
Business
Bio
Charles Entrekin was one of the Bay Area’s early computer programmers when the science began to emerge in the early 1970s. Recruited out of a PhD program in philosophy, he was trained initially by PacBell and worked on room-sized mainframe computers. He went on to design early computer systems for Fortune 500 companies. Eventually he became a founder and director of three successful Bay Area computer companies: The Application Group, Application Resources, Inc., and Convoy Corporation. He is CEO of Cedar Circle, L.P. and Katy Creek, Inc., and his latest venture, as founder, director and investor, is Innotas (formerly Project Arena), a start-up computer company in the Bay Area in the emerging market of Project Portfolio Management. For more information about Project Portfolio Management (PPM) on-demand go to www.innotas.com (formerly www.projectarena.com)
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