Michael Parker (novelist)

Michael Parker
Michael Parker
Born	Silver City, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation	Short story writer; novelist; journalist;
Nationality	American
Education	Appalachian State University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Virginia (MFA)
Website
	www.michaelfparker.com

Michael Parker is an American short story writer, novelist and journalist.

Life

Michael Parker was born in Silver City, North Carolina and grew up in Clinton, North Carolina.^[1] He attended Appalachian State University and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with honors in Creative Writing. Parker received his MFA from the University of Virginia in 1988.

Parker's short fiction has appeared in "New England Review," "The Oxford American," Five Points, Shenandoah, Carolina Quarterly, Epoch and The Georgia Review and has been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize Stories and New Stories from the South. His stories have received three O. Henry Awards (2005, 2014, 2018).^[2]

Parker's nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Runner's World, Trail Runner, Men's Journal, Gulf Coast, Our State, The Oxford American and other magazines.^[3]^[4]

Parker taught for nearly 30 years at the MFA Creative Writing Program at UNC Greensboro, and now lives in Austin, Texas.^[5] He is on the faculty of the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College.

2023 Texas Institute of Letters inductee
2020 Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture
2019 long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for Prairie Fever
2018 O. Henry Prize Story
2014 O. Henry Prize Story
2010 R. Hunt Parker Award for Literature
2006 North Carolina Award for Literature
2005 O. Henry Prize Story
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

Hello Down There. Scribner. 1993. ISBN 978-0-684-19424-0.
Towns Without Rivers. William Morrow. 2001. ISBN 978-0-380-97860-1.
Virginia Lovers. Delphinium Books. 2004. ISBN 978-1-883285-24-1.
If You Want Me To Stay. Algonquin Books. 2005. ISBN 978-1-56512-484-4. Michael Parker (novelist).
The Watery Part of the World. Algonquin Books. 2011. ISBN 978-1-56512-682-4. the watery part of the world.
All I Have In This World. Algonquin Books. 2014. ISBN 978-1-61620-162-3.
Prairie Fever, May 2019, Algonquin Books, ISBN 9781616208530
I Am The Light of This World, November 2022, Algonquin Books. (ISBN 9781643751795)

The Geographical Cure. C. Scribner's Sons. 1994. ISBN 978-0-684-19682-4.
Don't Make Me Stop Now. Algonquin Books. 2007. ISBN 978-1-56512-485-1. Michael Parker don't make me.
Everything, Then and Since, Bull City Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1- 4951-5767-7