Michael Knight is an American

United States

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 writer

Writer

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 and an Alabama native. He has received numerous awards, including the New Writing Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers

Fellowship of Southern Writers

The Fellowship of Southern Writers is a literary organization founded in 1987 in Chattanooga, Tennessee by 21 Southern writers and other literary luminaries...

 and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award

Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award

The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award is awarded annually to a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction. The award is named after Ernest Hemingway and funded by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, which has been administered by the Hemingway...

 Special Citation, both in 1999, and the Henfield Foundation Award for Fiction in 1996.

Education

Knight received his MFA from the University of Virginia

University of Virginia

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, his MA from The University of Southern Mississippi

The University of Southern Mississippi

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, and his BA from Hampden-Sydney College

Hampden-Sydney College

Hampden–Sydney College is a liberal arts college for men located in Hampden Sydney, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1775, Hampden–Sydney is the oldest private charter college in the Southern U.S., the last college founded before the American Revolution, and one of only three four-year,...

. Currently he is the director of the creative writing program of the University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

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, Knoxville.

Selected publications

Novels & Short Story Collections:

• Divining Rod (Dutton, 1998)
• Dogfight & Other Stories (Plume, 1998)
• Goodnight, Nobody (Atlantic Monthly, 2003)
• The Holiday Season (Grove Press, 2007)
• The Typist (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010)

Fiction in Periodicals:

• Fiction Weekly
  Fiction Weekly
  Fiction Weekly is an American literary magazine based in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Fiction Weekly was conceived in the summer of 2008 by members of the McNeese State University MFA Program in creative writing...
  
  , 2009
• Southern Review
  Southern Review
  The Southern Review, a literary journal co-founded in 1935 by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks and located on the campus of Louisiana State University, publishes fiction, poetry, critical essays, interviews, book reviews, and excerpts from novels in progress by established and emerging writers...
  
  , 2005
• Five Points
  Five Points
  Five Points may refer to:*Five Points, Alabama*Five Points, California , multiple locations*Five Points, Florida*Five Points, North Carolina*Five Points, Ohio*Five Points, Pennsylvania , multiple locations...
  
  , 2003
• Story Quarterly, 2003
• Virginia Quarterly Review, 2002
• Five Points, 2001
• Virginia Quarterly Review, 2000
• GQ, 1999
• Esquire
  Esquire (magazine)
  Esquire is a men's magazine, published in the U.S. by the Hearst Corporation. Founded in 1932, it flourished during the Great Depression under the guidance of founder and editor Arnold Gingrich.-History:...
  
  , 1999
• Mid-American Review
  Mid-American Review
  Mid-American Review is an international literary journal dedicated to publishing contemporary fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translations. Founded in 1981, MAR is a publication of the Department of English and the College of Arts & Sciences at Bowling Green State University...
  
  , 1999
• Story
  Story (magazine)
  Story was a magazine founded in 1931 by journalist-editor Whit Burnett and his first wife, Martha Foley, in Vienna, Austria. Showcasing short stories by new authors, 67 copies of the debut issue were mimeographed in Vienna, and two years later, Story moved to New York City where Burnett and Foley...
  
  , 1998
• The New Yorker
  The New Yorker
  The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
  
  , 1998
• The Paris Review, 1998
• The Paris Review, 1997
• Virginia Quarterly Review, 1996
• Playboy
  Playboy
  Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
  
  , 1996
• The Crescent Review, 1996
• Shenandoah
  Shenandoah
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  , 1996
• Blue Penny Quarterly, 1995

Fiction in Anthologies:

• New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2004
• Best American Mystery Stories, 2004
• New Stories in the South: The Year’s Best, 2003
• New Stories From the South: The Year's Best, 1999
• Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops, 1997
• Writers in the Information Age: The Best of The Net, 1996