Charlotte Gullick is a novelist, essayist, poet, editor, and educator who grew up in Mendocino County. In 2000, she received a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship for her collection of poetry, The Midwifery of Dreams. Her first novel, By Way of Water (Penguin Putnam), was chosen by Jayne Anne Phillips as the Grand Prize Winner of the Santa Fe's Writer's Project for 2002.

Charlotte teaches Memoir, Novel, Short Fiction, Poetry, and Composition, and she has taught in a variety of settings, including College of the Redwoods and the Sebastopol Art Center. She has been the director of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference since 2005.

In November 2007, Charlotte was awarded a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship.