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Michael Parker

Professor Michael Parker

Contact Information
            E-mail: mfparker@uncg.edu
            Office: MHRA 3308

At UNCG Since: 1993

Education
            M.F.A. University of Virginia-1988
            B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-1984

Research Interests
Mr. Parker teaches courses in creative writing and literature on both the graduate and undergraduate level.

Selected Publications

  • Can't Find My Way Home. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, forthcoming 2009.
  • Don't Make Me Stop Now. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2007.
  • If You Want Me To Stay. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2005.
  • “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way.” The New York Times Magazine 9 Jan 2005.
  • Virginia Lovers. Harrison: Delphinium, 2004.
  • “Off Island.” New Stories from the South 2003: The Year’s Best.” Ed. Shannon Ravenel. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2003. 308-19.
  • "People Get Ready." Shenandoah 54.1 (2003).
  • Towns Without Rivers. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
  • The Geographical Cure. New York: Scribner's, 1994.
  • Hello Down There. New York: Scribner's, 1993.

Awards and Honors

    • North Carolina Award for Literature,2006.
    • Hobson Award in Arts and Letters, 2005.
    • Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council, 2004.
    • Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2004.
    • Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, for The Geographical Cure, 1994.
    • Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway prize, for Hello Down There, 1993.