Larry Colker

Larry Colker has co-hosted a weekly reading in the Los Angeles area for 15 years. His first collection, Amnesia and Wings, was published in May 2013 by Tebot Bach (www.tebotbach.org). He previously published four chapbooks, and his work has appeared in dozens of print and online journals and anthologies since 1995.

Larry was born in Huntington, WV, attended Deerfield Academy and universities in Chicago, Kansas City, and Urbana-Champaign, IL, with concentrations in Humanities, Romance Languages and Literatures, Educational Research and Psychology, and Early Childhood Education (he is a certified Montessori Primary teacher).

He has studied and workshopped poetry off and on with David St. John, Suzanne Lummis, Jack Grapes, Cecilia Woloch, Brendan Constantine, Richard Garcia, and others. In 2006 he was the poetry winner of the triennial California Writers Exchange contest sponsored by Poets & Writers, Inc.

Currently he lives in Hillsborough, NC. Email: lcolker@gmail.com.