Richard Scott Larson
Nonfiction
New York City, NY
Richard Scott Larson is a queer writer and critic. He has received fellowships from MacDowell and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and his creative and critical work has appeared in The Sun Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Harvard Review, Joyland, Electric Literature, and many other journals and anthologies, including It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror. His work has also been recognized twice by The Best American Essays and has been supported by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, and the Willa Cather Foundation. He is the author of the memoir The Long Hallway, which was published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and he’s an active member of the National Book Critics Circle. He holds an MFA from New York University and lives in Brooklyn.