Interests and Information
Creative writing
Poetry
Contemporary North Carolina literature
(Hire Date: 1995)
M.A., UNC Chapel Hill, 1978
B.A., UNC Chapel Hill, 1976
mcfee@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-3461
Michael McFee
I have published nine collections of poetry, most recently The Smallest Talk (Bull City Press, 2007). In 2006, I published my first collection of essays, The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview (University of Tennessee Press). I have also edited This is Where We Live: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2000, a companion anthology to my The Language They Speak is Things to Eat: Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets, published by UNC Press in1994.
Awards
Thomas Wolfe Literary Award, Western North Carolina Historical Association, 2006.
Students' Undergraduate Teaching Award, UNC, April 2004.
Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, 2001.
Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professor, 2000-2005.
Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty, UNC, 1999.
Johnston Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, UNC, Spring 1998.