He is the author of novels, poetry and short stories, his work featuring in major anthologies of Caribbean writing.
[2] Wanting to be a writer since childhood, inspired by the storytelling of his maternal grandmother, Charles travelled to England after his schooling in Trinidad, to undertake further studies.
According to his own summary of the following years: "Before I began my studies, I worked in the Post Office and was also a Stock Keeper at a store in London and a Hardware Factory in Hertfordshire.
"[2] In addition to publishing many books for children and adults over the subsequent years, Charles has had a career as a sought-after storyteller and reader, visiting schools and colleges throughout the United Kingdom, as well as lecturing, and among the variety of engagements he has undertaken are as a creative writing fellowship at Warwick University and writer-in-residence at Wormwood Scrubs.
[3] In the words of Kamau Brathwaite, "Faustin Charles offers an utterance of his own, which promises to push the frontier of West Indian expression in poetry one understanding further on", and Edward Lucie-Smith has said: "Faustin Charles' work seems to me outstandingly successful in capturing certain essentially West Indian qualities – the mixture of European and African cultures, of the bizarre and the beautiful, the grotesque and the sinister.