Charlene L. Edge: Bio

Charlene Edge grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in a Roman Catholic family during the 1950s and 1960s. At college in 1970, fellow students recruited her into The Way International, a Bible-based cult. She became a leader and biblical researcher in The Way, but after she discovered what The Way really was, she escaped its headquarters in 1987.

Charlene's books

Charlene Edge is the author of two books. Her award-winning memoir titled, Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International (2017) and ...

From the Porch to the Page: A Guidebook for the Writing Life (2022). It includes: 

  • More than thirty essays on the writing life and craft
  • Charlene’s short stories and poems illustrating essay topics
  • Nourishing insights from well-known authors and poets
  • Recommended books for writing memoir, poetry, fiction, and travel stories
She launched From the Porch to the Page at the Winter Park Public Library, Winter Park, Florida, on May 17, 2022. Here is the video on YouTube of that event: Author Salon: Charlene Edge

Both books are available in paperback and eBook from major booksellers and indie bookstores.

Charlene speaks about her experiences in The Way

View her YouTube video presentation "A Cult Insider's Story" at CHARLENE L. EDGE --Author "A Cult Insider's Story"

After she escaped The Way headquarters in 1987 

... Charlene returned to college and earned a B.A. in English Literature from Rollins College in 1994, graduating summa cum laude and soon became a prose writer and a prize-winning poet. For her day job, she worked for more than a decade as a technical writer and proposal writer in the software industry before retiring early to write and publish what became her award-winning memoir, Undertow. 

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 short-short stories have been published in The Florida Writer magazine. 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.

She is a member of the Florida Writers Association, the Authors Guild, and ICSA. She lives in Florida with her husband, Dr. Hoyt L. Edge.

Charlene blogs about their travel adventures, writing, cults, fundamentalism, and other topics at: https://charleneedge.com.

Thanks for reading!

Charlene



 


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