Richard Scott Larson is a queer writer and critic. He is the author of The Long Hallway (University of Wisconsin Press).
He has received fellowships from MacDowell and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and his work has been supported by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, Paragraph Workspace for Writers, and the Willa Cather Foundation. His writing has been recognized as notable twice by The Best American Essays.
His creative and critical work has appeared in The Sun Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Harvard Review, Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, Cincinnati Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Slant Magazine, Colorado Review, Wigleaf, HAD, and many other journals and anthologies, including It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror. He edited the inaugural issue of Write or Die Magazine and is an active member of the National Book Critics Circle.
Born and raised in the suburbs of St. Louis, he earned his MFA from New York University in Paris. He lives in Brooklyn.
Interviews & Press:
True Magazine | Slant Magazine | Memoir Land | Write or Die | Brooklyn Public Library | Madison BookBeat | Full Stop | Style Weekly | The Lives of Writers | Chicago Review of Books | The Brooklyn Rail | Electric Literature |The Mumpsimus
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