Larry D. Thacker is a Kentuckian writer, artist, and educator now hailing from 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 full poetry collections Drifting in Awe (2017), Grave Robber Confessional (2019), Feasts of Evasion, 2019), and the forthcoming Gateless Menagerie (Nov 2021). He has two chapbooks, Voice Hunting and Memory Train (Finishing Line Press). His short story collection, Working it off in Labor County, is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press in February of 2021, and a short story collection, entitled Every Day, 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.
Contact:
Larry D. Thacker, M.Ed., Ed.S., M.F.A.
mountainfocusart@gmail.com
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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 the forthcoming Gateless Menagerie (Nov 2021). He has two chapbooks, Voice Hunting and Memory Train (Finishing Line Press). His short story collection, Working it off in Labor County, is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press in February of 2021, and a short story collection, entitled Every Day, 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.
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