Award-winning novelist and short-story writer Michael Parker will read Tuesday night, April 17, at 7:30 pm in Yeager Auditorium. Elon’s Creative Writing Program, the English Department, the Maness Fund, and the Elon College Fund for Excellence are proud to welcome Parker.
He is the author of three novels, including 2005’s IF YOU WANT ME TO STAY, winner of the Goodheart Prize for fiction, and HELLO DOWN THERE, a New York Times Notable Book and PEN/Hemingway Award finalist. He is also the author of two collections of stories, THE GEOGRAPHICAL CURE, winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award, and, most recently, 2007’s DON’T MAKE ME STOP NOW. His work has appeared in Epoch, The Black Warrior Review, Five Points, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and Oxford American; he has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, and New Stories from the South.
Michael Parker teaches in the MFA writing program at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Books will be available for sale following the reading, and admission, as always, is free.