Charlene L. Edge's most recent book is From the Porch to the Page: A Guidebook for the Writing Life. (New Wings Press, LLC. 2022) She is also the author of the award-winning memoir, Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International. (New Wings Press, LLC. 2017) Undertow is listed on Book Riot's "100 Must-Read Books about Life in Cults and Oppressive Religious Sects." Charlene spent seventeen years in The Way (1970–1987) as a leader and biblical researcher. After she escaped The Way in 1987, she earned a B.A. in English from Rollins Colleges and became a poet and prose writer. For more than a decade, she worked as a technical and proposal writer in the software industry. Her poetry has been featured on WMFE-FM's Poetic Logic and published in The Florida Writer magazine, the Tampa Writers Alliance’s Wordsmith, and the Rollins Book of Verse 1885–2010; her essays have appeared in Shifting Gears: Small, Startling Moments In and Out of the Classroom and ICSA Today, magazine of the International Cultic Studies Association. Charlene is a member of the Authors Guild, ICSA, and the Florida Writers Association. She lives in Florida with her husband, Dr. Hoyt L. Edge. Discover her blogs about their travel adventures, writing, cults, fundamentalism, and other topics at: https://charleneedge.com.
