Chuck Sudo was born in Chicago on June 6, 1969 and has spent the better part of his life wondering if he was switched in the hospital nursery at birth.

Chuck was raised in Chicago and Counce, Tennessee until an ugly incident with a iron fire poker and his stepfather’s head landed him in the care of his aunt and uncle at sixteen. Chuck graduated from Lane Tech High School in Chicago in 1987 and joined the U.S. Navy in March 1988.

In the navy, Chuck studied nuclear engineering, but he never got to melt down a reactor as he was assigned in 1990 to chart sea lanes in the Pacific Rim. Over the next four years, Chuck soaked up all the culture the outside world had to offer, writing the details of his escapades in chapbooks and articles for various military publications.

In March 1994, Chuck left the navy for the relative uncertainty of life as a civilian. He stumbled upon the Unofficial Soup Kitchen after seeing a flyer in a record store. Armed with two bad poems, the lack of sense to stay off the stage, and a can of soup, Chuck became a fixture on Soup Kitchen stages for the next year, often following Chris Hyatt in the lineup. He had a poem, "The Lemonade Stand," published in the prose journal The Last Stand in Sept 1994 .

These days, Chuck works on breaking into the comic book industry as a writer and lives in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood of Chicago. His list of interests include cigars, bourbon, jazz and soul music, and women who don’t stay for breakfast.  

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