Alan Michael Parker
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Alan Michael Parker is an American novelist, poet, and cartoonist. He serves as Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College.[1]
Early Life and Education[edit]
Parker studied poetry at Washington University under the poets Donald Finkel, Howard Nemerov, and Mona Van Duyn. He would go on to complete his MFA at Columbia University, where his professors included Carolyn Forché, Richard Howard, Denis Johnson, Stanley Kunitz, William Matthews, and Joseph Brodsky. He resides in Davidson, North Carolina, with his wife, Felicia van Bork, who is an artist.[2]
Career[edit]
Parker is the author of four novels: Cry Uncle, Whale Man, The Committee on Town Happiness, and Christmas in July. His poetry has been collected in nine volumes, including Days Like Prose, The Vandals, Love Song with Motor Vehicles, A Peal of Sonnets, Elephants & Butterflies, Ten Days, Long Division, The Ladder, and The Age of Discovery. He served as coeditor of The Manifesto Project and editor of The Imaginary Poets. In 2021, he was a judge for the National Book Award in fiction. In 2023, he served as a judge for the PEN/Faulkner Award in fiction.[3]
His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Pleiades, and The Yale Review, among other magazines, and twice in The Best American Poetry annual; his prose has appeared in journals including The Believer, The New York Times Book Review, and The New Yorker. New cartoons and flash fictions of his may be found in Fiction Kitchen, LITRO, New Flash Fiction Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Alan Michael Parker, Douglas Houchens Professor of English". Davidson College. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- ↑ "What is Alan Michael Parker Reading?". Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- ↑ "PEN/Faulkner: Alan Michael Parker". PEN/Faulkner. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- ↑ "Alan Michael Parker: About". Alan Michael Parker. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
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