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Michael Knight

Selected Publications

Books

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

Fiction in Periodicals

  • “Grand Old Party,” Oxford American, April 2008
  • “Thanksgiving,” Southern Review (vol.41, n.4, autumn 2005)
  • “Midnight at the Admiral Semmes,”  Five Points (vol. 8, no. 1, winter 2003)
  • “Smash & Grab,” StoryQuarterly (no. 39, 2003)
  • “Feeling Lucky,” Virginia Quarterly Review (vol. 79, no. 1, winter 2003)
  • “Ellen’s Book,” Five Points (vol 6, no.1, winter 2001)
  • “Keeper of Secrets, Teller of Lies,” Virginia Quarterly Review, (vol. 77, no.4, autumn 2001)
  • “The End of Everything,” GQ (December, 1999)
  • “The Mesmerist,” Esquire (March, 1999)
  • “The Last War Story,” Mid-American Review (vol.19, no.2, spring 1999)
  • “Birdland,” The New Yorker (November 3, 1998)
  • “Killing Stonewall Jackson,” Story (vol. 46, no. 3 summer, 1998)
  • “Tenant,” Paris Review (no. 147, summer 1998)
  • “Amelia Earhart’s Coat,” Virginia Quarterly Review, (vol. 73,  no. 1, winter, 1997)
  • “Now You See Her,” Paris Review (no. 141, winter 1996)
  • “Gerald’s Monkey” Playboy (October, 1996)
  • “Sleeping with My Dog,” The Crescent Review (vol. 14, no. 3, 1996)
  • “Sundays,” Shenandoah, (vol. 46, no. 4, winter 1996).

Fiction in Anthologies

  • “The Mesmerist,” Flash Fiction Forward (WW Norton, 2007)
  • “Gerald’s Monkey,” Behind the Short Story: From First to Final Draft (Pearson/Longman, 2007)
  • “Birdland, ” Best of the South: 1996-2005, (Algonquin, 2005)
  • “Feeling Lucky,” New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best (Algonquin, 2004.)
  • “Smash & Grab,” Best American Mystery Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
  • “Ellen’s Book,”  New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best (Algonquin, 2003)
  • “Birdland,” New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best (Algonquin, 1999).

Essays and Creative Nonfiction

  • “Swimming the Backstroke or Writing What We Don’t Know,” Harvard Review (vol.33, Fall 2007)
  • “Faulkner, Rowan Oak and the Art of Deception,” First Draft, (Vol.13, no.1, Fall 2006)
  • “My Friend, Percival,” Calalloo (vol.28,n.2, spring 2005)
  • “Eyes,” Body (Avon Books, 1999).

Honors and Awards

  • New Writing Award, Fellowship of Southern Writers, 1999
  • PEN/Hemingway Foundation Special Citation, 1999
  • Henfield Foundation Award for Fiction, 1996.
Michael Knight

Contact Information

Michael Knight
Director of Creative Writing
Department of English
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Education

MFA, University of Virginia
MA, University of Southern Mississippi
BA, Hampden-Sydney College

Research

Creative Writing,
Contemporary Fiction