Richard Scott Larson is a queer writer and critic. His memoir, The Long Hallway, was recently published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Born and raised in the outer suburbs of St. Louis, he studied literature and film criticism at Hunter College in Manhattan and earned his MFA from New York University in Paris. He has received fellowships from MacDowell and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and his work has also been supported by residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Paragraph Workspace for Writers, La Porte Peinte, and the Willa Cather Foundation.
His creative and critical work has appeared in The Sun Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Review of Books, Harvard Review, Electric Literature, Washington Square Review, Slant Magazine, Joyland, Colorado Review, Booth, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Wigleaf, and many other journals and anthologies, including It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (Feminist Press). He’s an active member of the National Book Critics Circle, and his writing has twice been listed as notable in The Best American Essays.
He works as the Program Manager of the Expository Writing Program at NYU, and he lives in the Ditmas Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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