Larry D. Thacker is a Kentuckian writer, artist, educator, and reality show actor, living in Johnson City, Tennessee. His poetry is in over 180 publications, including Spillway, Still: The Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Illuminations, American Journal of Poetry, Poetry South, and Appalachian Review. His short stories can be found in past issues of the Still: The Journal, Fried Chicken and Coffee, Dime Show Review, Story and Grit, Pikeville Review, and FEED. His stories have been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net recognitions.
He is the author of Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia (Overmountain Press) the full poetry collections Drifting in Awe (2017), Grave Robber Confessional (2019), Feasts of Evasion (2019), and Gateless Menagerie (Oct 2021). He has two chapbooks, Voice Hunting and Memory Train (Finishing Line Press). His short story collection, Working it off in Labor County: Stories is published with West Virginia University Press (February 2021). The follow-up collection to Working, entitled, Labor Days, Labor Nights: More Stories, was published in October of 2021d and a short story collection, entitled Everyday Monsters, co-authored with CM Chapman, is forthcoming in Dec 2021.
He is a veteran of the US Army and seventh generation native of the Cumberland Gap area. His MFA in poetry and fiction is from West Virginia Wesleyan College. He is also a 15-year veteran of the student services field in higher education with multiple professional degrees. He is an occasional adjunct instructor at Northeast State Community College. You can also find him as a regular on the new Netflix reality show, Swap Shop, premiering November 9th, 2021.
Contact:
Larry D. Thacker, M.Ed., Ed.S., M.F.A.
mountainfocusart@gmail.com
Instagram Handle: thackalachia
Twitter Handle: @thackalachia
FB: www.facebook.com/thackalachia
He is the author of Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia (Overmountain Press) the full poetry collections Drifting in Awe (2017), Grave Robber Confessional (2019), Feasts of Evasion (2019), and Gateless Menagerie (Oct 2021). He has two chapbooks, Voice Hunting and Memory Train (Finishing Line Press). His short story collection, Working it off in Labor County: Stories is published with West Virginia University Press (February 2021). The follow-up collection to Working, entitled, Labor Days, Labor Nights: More Stories, was published in October of 2021d and a short story collection, entitled Everyday Monsters, co-authored with CM Chapman, is forthcoming in Dec 2021.
He is a veteran of the US Army and seventh generation native of the Cumberland Gap area. His MFA in poetry and fiction is from West Virginia Wesleyan College. He is also a 15-year veteran of the student services field in higher education with multiple professional degrees. He is an occasional adjunct instructor at Northeast State Community College. You can also find him as a regular on the new Netflix reality show, Swap Shop, premiering November 9th, 2021.
Contact:
Larry D. Thacker, M.Ed., Ed.S., M.F.A.
mountainfocusart@gmail.com
Instagram Handle: thackalachia
Twitter Handle: @thackalachia
FB: www.facebook.com/thackalachia