Department of English
MICHAEL PARKER
Title: Professor
E-Mail: mfparker@uncg.edu
Phone: 334-4696
Office: 3308 MHRA
Michael Parker is the author of four novels - Hello Down There (Scribner's, 1993), a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway prize, Towns Without Rivers (HarperCollins, 2001) Virginia Lovers (Delphinium, 2004) and If You Want Me To Stay (Algonquin, 2005) as well as two collections of stories: The Geographical Cure (Scribner's, 1994), which won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, and Don't Make Me Stop Now (Algonquin, 2007.) His fiction has appeared in many magazines including Five Points, Shenandoah, Carolina Quarterly, Epoch, and The Georgia Review and has been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize Stories, the O. Henry Prize Stories and New Stories from the South. Recent nonfiction publications include The New York Times Magazine, Runner's World and The Oxford American. In 2004 he was awarded fiction fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the recipient of the 2005 Hobson Award in Arts and Letters and the 2006 North Carolina Award for Literature. A new novel, Can't Find My Way Home, is forthcoming from Algonquin Books in 2009. He teaches courses in creative writing and literature on both the graduate and undergraduate level.