Quimby, Charlie: -
Charlie Quimby's writing career has spanned plays, novels, newspapers, corporate communications, speechwriting, public policy think tanks, and social media--some of it award-winning, much of it lucrative, and all of it destined to be lost in time. He's served on arts, sports, community, and professional boards, public commissions, political campaigns, reunion committees, tutoring programs, and as a neighborhood organizer and HOA president. He is the author of Monument Road, Inhabited, and Planning to Stay: Learning to See the Physical Features of Your Neighborhood.
Quimby brings an introspective literary style to writing about his work in the trenches of community organizations. He is open about being a writer with the people he meets and reports respectfully, but collecting stories is not his motivation. He connects with people as a voluntary preschool aide, shower attendant, street barber, discussion leader, bike mechanic, and front door greeter, without trying to be social worker, therapist, or white savior. The bonds he forms are mutual and genuine.
His fictional work earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Monument Road was also honored as a selection for the independent booksellers Indie Next List. His nonfiction and marketing work has won scores of professional awards and been featured by publications such as Harvard Business Review and Financial World. He continues his volunteer and community building work in Minnesota and Colorado, organizing neighborhoods, raising money, supporting political campaigns, and continuing to write for people doing similar work on his free Substack newsletter, Small Ponds.
