Charles P. Ries is Senior Director of Development Design and Innovation at Marquette University. He joined Marquette’s Advancement staff in 1998. Prior to joining Marquette he was Vice President for Development at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, CA and Senior Vice President of the Oram Group - a fund raising management and consulting firm founded in 1940. During his thirteen years with The Oram Group he worked with over 200 non-profit organizations solving a variety of fundraising and organizational challenges. He is an honors graduate of the University of Wisconsin.He is also a published author. His narrative poems, short stories, interviews, and poetry reviews have appeared in over two hundred print and electronic publications. He has received five Pushcart Prize nominations for his writing. He is the author of six books of poetry and a novel based on memory. He was awarded the Wisconsin Regional Writers Association “Jade Ring” Award for humorous poetry. He is the former poetry editor for Word Riot (www.wordriot.org) and board member at the Woodland Pattern Book Center as well as the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission. His book of poetry published by Alternating Currents Press in 2013 entitled, Girl Friend & Other Mysteries of Love. was selected for Outstanding Achievement by the Literary Awards Committee of the Wisconsin Library Association. You may find his blog radio interview Jane Crown by going to: www.janecrown.com and clicking on archived shows at the bottom of the page. His novel based on memory was recently published on Amazon/Kindle and it can be accessed by going to: http://www.amazon.com/THE-FATHERS-WE-FIND-ebook/dp/B00854K2M4You may find the Charles P. Ries Collection which is archieved at the Marquette University Raynor Library by going to: http://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/Mss/CPR/CPR-main.shtml