(Posted 10-18-00)
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PARKER SHORT STORY INCLUDED IN ANTHOLOGY
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GREENSBORO—Michael F. Parker, an associate professor of creative writing and English at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has the lead story in the new anthology, “This Is Where I Live,” which has just been published by UNC Press.
Parker’s story is titled “Commit To Memory.” Another of his stories, “Everything Was Paid For,” was included in the summer issue of the magazine Five Points. Parker is completing a new novel, “Town Without Rivers,” which Harper Collins will release next May.
A UNCG faculty member since 1992, Parker is author of a novel, "Hello Down There" (1992). His collection of short stories and novellas, "The Geographical Cure,” won the 1994 Sir Walter Raleigh Prize. His short fiction has been published in Georgia Review, Southern Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly, Greensboro Review and Quarry West.
He teaches in the Master of Fine Arts creative writing program in the
UNCG Department of English. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, he received
his MFA degree from the writing program at the University of Virginia.
He has received several awards for his fiction, including the Henry Hoyns
Fellowship at UVa. and the Transatlantic Review award from the
Henfield Foundation. One of his essays was included in the 1995 Best
American Essays collection.
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