By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-5371
Posted 1-09-07
Michael Parker has just released a new volume of short stories, all about love relationships.
GREENSBORO, NC – Michael Parker will stop writing Feb. 8 – just long enough to read from his new short story collection, “Don’t Make Me Stop Now.”
Parker, a novelist and professor in the MFA Writing Program at UNCG, will read at 8 p.m. in Curry Auditorium on Spring Garden Street. The reading, hosted by the MFA program and UNCG’s The Greensboro Review, is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow.
“Don’t Make Me Stop Now” includes stories almost exclusively about love affairs, Parker said. “There’s a common theme of passion and love that goes on in the stories.”
Parker is the author of four novels – “Hello Down There,” a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the PEN/Hemingway prize; “Towns without Rivers;” “Virginia Lovers;” and “If You Want Me to Stay” – as well as a collection of novellas and stories, “The Geographical Cure.”
His stories have appeared in many magazines including Shenandoah, Oxford American, The Georgia Review, and Five Points and have been anthologized in “Pushcart Prize,” “Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards,” and “New Stories from the South.” He has received the North Carolina Award, the Goodheart Prize, the Sir Walter Raleigh Award, and fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
A Clinton native, Parker received his MFA from the University of Virginia and his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined the UNCG faculty in 1992.
For more information, contact Terry Kennedy at (336) 334-5459 or terry_kennedy@uncg.edu.
