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.
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

