David Starkey (born June 28, 1962) is an American poet and academic, and former poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California. Starkey is a professor of English at Santa Barbara City College, where he directs the creative writing program. Prior to teaching at SBCC, he was an assistant professor at Francis Marion University and associate professor at North Central College. He was a Fulbright-Hays Scholar in India in 1994 and a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oulu, Finland in 1999.
Starkey has published more than 500 poems in literary magazines and has authored eleven books of poetry, authored or co-authored five textbooks, and edited or co-edited six anthologies. He is also a book reviewer for the Santa Barbara Independent. He served as Santa Barbara’s third poet laureate, from 2009-2011, has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, and is the publisher and co-editor of Gunpowder Press, a Santa Barbara-based small press that specializes in the publication of poetry.
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