David Starkey

David Starkey is the author of SonicBond’s Talking Heads (On Track), as well as thirteen books of poetry and two novels—Poor Ghost (2024) and The Fairley Brothers in Japan (2025)—both focusing on the trials and tribulations of musicians. A former Santa Barbara Poet Laureate, and co-editor, with Brian Tanguay, of the California Review of Books, Starkey plays with various bands, and with drummer Eric Prothero records and performs as Falstaff Riley. A lifelong Springsteen fan, Starkey still owns the copy of Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. that he bought the year it came out, when he was eleven years old.