Michael Parker

Michael Parker is the author of seven novels and three collections of stories. His has published fiction and nonfiction in various journals including Five Points, the Georgia Review, The New England Review, The New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Oxford American, Gulf Coast, Shenandoah, The Black Warrior Review, Trail Runner and Runner’s World. He has received fellowships in fiction from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Hobson Award for Arts and Letters, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. His work has been included in the Pushcart and New Stories from the South anthologies and he is a three-time winner of the O.Henry Prize for short fiction. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.