About A.M. Larks

About A.M. Larks

A.M. Larks’s writing has appeared in Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, NiftyLitScoundrel TimeAssay: A Journal of Nonfiction StudiesFive on the FifthCharge Magazine, and the  Brevity,  ZYZZYVA, and  Ploughshares  blogs. She has served as a judge for the Loud Karma Productions’ Emerging Female and Nonbinary Playwriting Award and has performed her stories at Lit Up at Town Hall Theatre in Lafayette, CA. She is the managing editor and blog editor at Kelp Journal. She is the former fiction editor at Please See Me, the former blog editor at The Coachella Review, as well as the former photography editor at Kelp Journal. A.M. Larks earned an MFA in creative writing from UC Riverside at Palm Desert, a JD, and a BA in English literature.

AM Larks writes fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, poetry and drama. Her writing has appeared in Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors,NiftyLitScoundrel TimeAssay: A Journal of Nonfiction StudiesFive on the FifthCharge Magazine, and the Brevity,   Zyzzyva,  and Ploughshares blogs. She has served as a judge for the Loud Krama Productions Emerging Female and Nonbinary Playwriting Award and has performed her stories at Lit Up at Town Hall Theatre in Lafayette, California. She is the managing editor and blog editor at Kelp Journal. She is the former the former fiction editor at Please See Me, the former blog editor of The Coachella Review, as well as the former photography editor at Kelp Journal.

AM Larks earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, a Juris Doctorate, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from the University California Riverside Palm Desert’s low residency program. She is a longtime patron of the arts and enjoys stories that capture the complexities of life on the page or screen.

News

Latest

  • Summer has shifted in Fall before my very eyes and here are my latest projects.

  • I co-edited the Best of Kelp Journal vol. 1 

  • I had the honor to speak to the lovely writers that are part of the SLO Night Writes group in San Luis Obispo about how to get published.

  • I talked all things darkroom with Amy Cale Hueber

  • I read and reviewed Creatures by Crissy Van Meter

  • I caught up with KJ Hannah Greenberg again as we took a deep dive into her photography

Events

Greg Sarris—tribal leader, scholar, teacher, and activist—has always kept stories, and storytelling, at the center of his ambitious life’s work. In his latest book, The Forgetters, he goes to the root [...]

Litquake: Tough Broads

October 23 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

What would you call Amy Appelhans Gubser, who, at age 55, became the first-ever person to swim from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands (that’s 29.6 miles) through shark-infested [...]

Litquake’s Small Press Book Fair

October 19 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Join a curated spread of small presses and literary magazines for the newly revived Litquake Book Fair in Yerba Buena Gardens! Browse the best in local literature set to a [...]

Purchase

Best of Kelp Journal
Ocean Poetry Anthology
Kelp Journal – Issue #10
Proud to Be: Writing By American Warriors, volume 12
Kelp Journal – Issue #9
Kelp Journal – Issue #8
Published: A Craft Guide
Kelp Journal – Issue #7
Sick Day, Short Story, NFT
Kelp Journal – Issue #6
Artifact Noveau Vol. 2 Issue 3

out of print

Celebrate! Young Poets Speak Out
California – Spring 2001

out of print

Works

Editorial Services

I am now offering Editorial Services for any length of work (micro, flash, short story/essay, or novel/book length). I am well-versed in a number of formats and genres so contact me today and let’s chat about your project!

Editorial Services:

  • Conceptual Editing (Book Doctoring)

  • Developmental Editing

  • Line Editing

  • Submission Advising

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