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Michael McFee

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Michael McFee is a poet and essayist from Asheville, North Carolina.[1]

Career

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Michael McFee was born in 1954.[1] He earned his B.A. (1976) and M.A. (1978) from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] He left graduate school to work a variety of jobs — editorial assistant, librarian, and freelance journalist among them — while he completed his first book. After it was published, he taught part-time at N.C. State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.[1] In the late 1980s, McFee was poet-in-residence at Cornell University and also at Lawrence University.[1] He began teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990, where he is now Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program.[1] In 2018, McFee was awarded the North Carolina Award for literature, the state's highest civilian honor.

Writings

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Much of McFee's work deals with his native North Carolina mountains. His book of poems 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; his next collection, Shinemaster, won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award from the Western North Carolina Historical Association.

Bibliography

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Poetry

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  • 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, Gnomon Press, 1991.
  • Colander, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1996.
  • Earthly, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001.
  • Never Closer, Two Rivers Press, 2005. A chapbook of poems.
  • Shinemaster, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006.
  • The Smallest Talk, Bull City Press, 2007. A book of one-line poems.
  • That Was Oasis, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012.
  • We Were Once Here, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017.
  • A Long Time to Be Gone, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2022.

Essays

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  • The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview, University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
  • Appointed Rounds: Essays, Mercer University Press, 2018.

Anthologies

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  • 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 Live: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers, University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
  • Editor, The Spectator Reader, Spectator Publications, 1985.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Flora, J.M.; Vogel, A. (2006). Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary. Southern Literary Studies. LSU Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-8071-3123-7. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
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