richard scott larson

Richard Scott Larson is a queer writer and critic. Born and raised in the suburbs of St. Louis, he studied literature and film at Hunter College in Manhattan and earned his MFA from New York University. He has received fellowships from MacDowell and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and he’s also been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center, the Paragraph Workspace for Writers, and La Porte Peinte in Noyers, France. He’s an active member of the National Book Critics Circle, and his creative and critical work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Review of Books, Harvard Review, Electric Literature, Slant Magazine, Joyland, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Colorado Review, Booth, and various other journals and anthologies, including the forthcoming It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (Feminist Press). His writing has also been listed as notable in The Best American Essays. He works as an administrator at the Expository Writing Program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.