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Michael Knight

Selected Publications

  • Novels & Short Story Collections: Goodnight, Nobody (Atlantic Monthly, 2003)
  • Divining Rod (Dutton, 1998); Dogfight & Other Stories (Plume, 1998).

Fiction in Periodicals

  • Southern Review, 2005
  • Five Points, 2003
  • Story Quarterly, 2003
  • Virginia Quarterly Review, 2002
  • Five Points, 2001
  • Virginia Quarterly Review, 2000
  • GQ, 1999
  • Esquire, 1999
  • Mid-American Review, 1999
  • Story, 1998
  • The New Yorker, 1998
  • The Paris Review, 1998
  • The Paris Review, 1997
  • Virginia Quarterly Review, 1996
  • Playboy, 1996
  • The Crescent Review, 1996
  • Shenandoah, 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.

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