Michael McFee
![]() | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Michael McFee is a poet and essayist from Asheville, North Carolina.[1]
Career
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- 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
[edit]- The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview, University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
- Appointed Rounds: Essays, Mercer University Press, 2018.
Anthologies
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ 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.
External links
[edit]- Becoming Poet: Michael McFee, interview, Palette Poetry
- Living people
- American male poets
- Poets from North Carolina
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
- North Carolina State University faculty
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro faculty
- Cornell University faculty
- Lawrence University faculty
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
- Writers from Asheville, North Carolina
- 1954 births