Larry D. Thacker is a Kentuckian writer and artist now living in Johnson City, Tennessee. His poetry is in over 170 publications, including Spillway, Still: The Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Illuminations, American Journal of Poetry, Poetry South, The Southern Poetry Anthology, and Appalachian Heritage. His short stories can be found in past issues of the Still: The Journal, Fried Chicken and Coffee, Dime Show Review, Vandalia Journal, 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 poetry chapbooks, Voice Hunting and Memory Train (Finishing Line Press) and the full collections Drifting in Awe (2017, Finishing Line Press), Grave Robber Confessional (Jan 2019, Main Street Rag Publishing), and Feasts of Evasion (2019, Future Cycle Press). His next full collection of poetry, Gateless Menagerie, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in late 2021. His short story collection, Working it off in Labor County, is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press in early 2021, and a short story collection, entitled, Every Day, Monsters, written with CM Chapman, is forthcoming in late 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.
Contact:
Larry D. Thacker, M.Ed., Ed.S., M.F.A.
mountainfocusart@gmail.com
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Twitter Handle: @thackalachia
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He is the author of Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia (Overmountain Press) the poetry chapbooks, Voice Hunting and Memory Train (Finishing Line Press) and the full collections Drifting in Awe (2017, Finishing Line Press), Grave Robber Confessional (Jan 2019, Main Street Rag Publishing), and Feasts of Evasion (2019, Future Cycle Press). His next full collection of poetry, Gateless Menagerie, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in late 2021. His short story collection, Working it off in Labor County, is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press in early 2021, and a short story collection, entitled, Every Day, Monsters, written with CM Chapman, is forthcoming in late 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.
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