Charlene L. Edge's latest book is From the Porch to the Page: A Guidebook for the Writing Life. (2022). She is also the author of the award-winning memoir, Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International. (2017).

Edge spent seventeen years in The Way (1970–1987), the fundamentalist cult she writes about in Undertow. After she escaped, she earned a B.A. in English from Rollins College and became a poet and prose writer.

For more than a decade she worked as a technical and proposal writer in the software industry.

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 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.