Michael McFee

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Michael McFee is a poet and essayist from Asheville, North Carolina.

[edit] McFee's Professional Life

McFee began his teaching career at Cornell University and has also served as the poet-in-residence at Lawrence University. He served for a time as the poetry editor for DoubleTake Magazine. McFee is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[edit] McFee's Writings

Much of McFee's work deals with his childhood in the mountains of North Carolina. His book Earthly was co-winner of the Roanoake-Chowan Award for Poetry from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Society and was an honorable mention for the Poets' Prize.

[edit] Bibliography

• Plain Air, University Presses of Florida, 1983.
• Vanishing Acts, Gnomon Press, 1989.
• To See, North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, 1991. A collaboration with photographer Elizabeth Matheson.
• Sad Girl Sitting on a Running Board
• Colander, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1996.
• Earthly, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001.
• Shinemaster, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006.
• The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview, University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
• The Smallest Talk, Bull City Press, 2007. A book of one-line poems.

• Editor, The Language They Speak is Things to Eat: Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets, University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
• Editor, This is Where We Love: New North Carolina Short Stories, University of North Carolina Press, 2000.