J.R. LaMar

J.R. LaMar is a 26 year old American children’s poet who lives in Coos Bay, Oregon

with his wife Chelsea and their three girls Arya, Chloe, and Hazel. He is a stay at home

father and a full-time student with the hopes of becoming a teacher. His wife Chelsea

works with disadvantaged children and is in recovery from a nearly fatal post-partum infection. Falling in love with children’s poetry at a young age by reading the works

of Jack Prelutsky and Shel Silverstein, he hopes that his children will one day find the

​same joy reading his work as he did the others. They thank God each day for the

​opportunities they’ve been given.