Maggie Lynch interviews author David Starkey, a novelist, poet, and non-fiction writer. His most recent book is The Fairley Brothers in Japan. He is adept at combining humor along with deep emotional situations. He is most known for his poetry and served as Santa Barbara’s 2009-2011 Poet Laureate. David is also the Publisher and Co-editor of Gunpowder Press. Over the past thirty years, he has published eleven full-length collections of poetry with small presses and more than 500 poems in literary journals such as American Scholar, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner and Southern Review. As an educator, he has written and edited a number of non-fiction books  David is also a founding editor of the California Review of Books and the host of Santa Barbara’s Creative Community. You can learn more about him and his books on his website: https://davidstarkey.net/