Michael Knight (writer)

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Michael Knight is an American writer, currently the Director of Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the New Writing Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 1999, the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Special Citation, also in 1999, and the Henfield Foundation Award for Fiction in 1996. He received his MFA from the University of Virginia, his MA from The University of Southern Mississippi, and his BA from Hampden-Sydney College.

[edit] Selected publications:

Novels & Short Story Collections: Goodnight, Nobody (Atlantic Monthly, 2003);Divining Rod (Dutton, 1998); Dogfight & Other Stories (Plume, 1998); The Holiday Season (Grove Press, 2007).

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.