About

Chas Carey is an attorney and inveterate public servant. Since 2010, he has been a member of the multidisciplinary “narrative technology” collective Wolf 359. He lives with his extremely talented wife and their two children in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For information about his public sector career, please visit his LinkedIn page.

As an actor, he appeared Off-Broadway as The News in The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias and as Danica in the original festival cast of Evanston: A Rare Comedy at P.S. 122. Other roles have included James in the interactive work temping, three seasons as the principal comic baritone of the Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society, and a garbage disposal unit. He was a panelist on the American Public Media podcast Smash Boom Best.

As a writer, his work includes fiction, narrative non-fiction, essays, and reviews. He has been featured in numerous literary magazines, on NPR, and at the long-running Hearth Gods reading series in New York City. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College and is a member of the fiction staff at the Raleigh Review. He covered the 2012 Republican presidential primaries for a small online start-up that folded soon after he joined their softball team.

As a traveler, he has visited six continents and worked on five. Past journeys include riding the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Ulaanbaatar, performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and crossing the Demilitarized Zone on the Korean Peninsula.

Select press:

• The New Yorker (for Sabine Women)

• The New York Times (for temping)

• Fringe Review (for Righteous Money at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe)

Current listening: Diamond Rugs - “Blue Mountains”