Bio

After studying English literature at McGill University, C. B. Whitaker adapted novels into screenplays for production companies in New York, London, Los Angeles, and Buenos Aires, honing his craft in dialogue and compression.

He then worked in publishing for ten years at Book-of-the-Month Club in the Children’s and Paperback divisions and McGraw Hill in education science and freelanced as an editor and writer for companies, including Time-Life and Macmillan. 

Chronogram magazine awarded his short story “Different” first place in its Creative Writing Contest, Habitat for Artists awarded him a residency to write the short story “A Golden Opportunity,” and the Sojourner Truth Library published several of his flash fiction pieces in their Poem In Your Pocket series. 

SUNY Press published his short fiction works “Impresario,” “America in Crisis, 1969” and “Harlequin Resting” in separate anthologies. The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art exhibited these stories in the museum’s Reading Objects series.

In addition to curating the COTA Festival’s Writers’ Tent for four years, he wrote non-fiction articles and features for KidLiterati, Contemporary Musicians, Big Apple Soccer, the Holistic Education Review, and several textbooks for grades 3-6.

His new novel, Journey to Sunfire Mountain, was awarded a prize in the Basque Writing Contest, jointly sponsored by the University of Nevada, Reno and Boise State University, and was later published by Red Goat Press.

Born near Chicago, IL, he grew up in Austin, TX, Billericay, UK, Tardets, FR, Lewisburg, PA before moving out on his own to Boston, MA, Montreal, QC, Manhattan, NY, and Kingston, NY. He has traveled to all seven provinces of the Basque Country.