Episode 39: Luke Larkin | University of Montana

Literary fiction on Monday, pulp on Tuesday, YA on Wednesday, poetry on Thursday. Luke Larkin of the University of Montana tells Jared about crossing and mixing genres in a program with a literary pedigree, how queerness and Catholicism influence his writing, and surviving (and thriving!) in the natural beauty and long winters of Missoula.

Luke Larkin earned his BA in creative writing at the University of Montana before entering UM's MFA program, where he is a second-year fiction student and editor-in-chief of CutBank Magazine, the program's long-running literary magazine. While he studies fiction primarily, he also writes creative nonfiction and poetry. His work has appeared in Popshot, HAD, Barren Magazine, and elsewhere. Find him on Twitter @lukeglarkin, his website, lukelarkin.info, and the micro magazine Unstamatic.

Mentions:

· Donald Barthleme
· Fat Bear Week
· Ursula K. Le Guin
· Richard Hugo
· Debra Earling
· “The Only Bar in Dixon” by Richard Hugo, J. D. Reed, and James Welch
· Heather Cahoon
· Keetje Kuipers
· Boris Fishman
· Sean Hill
· Emily Ruskovich
· Erin Saldin
· Erin Costello Wecker
· Ray Bradbury