Michael Parker (novelist)
Encyclopedia
Michael Parker is an American short story writer, novelist and journalist.
He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina
and teaches courses in creative writing and literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Life
His fiction has appeared in 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. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Runner's World and The Oxford American.He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city by population in North Carolina and the largest city in Guilford County and the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. According to the 2010 U.S...
and teaches courses in creative writing and literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro , also known as UNC Greensboro, is a public university in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States and is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system. The university offers more than 100 undergraduate, 61 master's and 26...
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Awards
- 2006 North Carolina Award for Literature
- 2005 Hobson Award in Arts and Letters
- 2004 Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council
- 2004 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
- 1994 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, for The Geographical Cure
- 1993 Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway prize, for Hello Down There