Michael Knight (writer)

Michael Knight is an American writer from Mobile, Alabama. He has received numerous awards, including the New Writing Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Special Citation, both in 1999, and the Henfield Foundation Award for Fiction in 1996.

Knight received his MFA from the University of Virginia, his MA from The University of Southern Mississippi, and his BA from Hampden-Sydney College. Currently he is the director of the creative writing program of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Novels & Short Story Collections

• Divining Rod (Dutton, 1998)
• Dogfight & Other Stories (Plume, 1998)
• Goodnight, Nobody (Atlantic Monthly, 2003)
• The Holiday Season (Grove Press, 2007)
• The Typist (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010)

Fiction in Periodicals

• Fiction Weekly, 2009
• Southern Review, 2005
• Five Points, 2003
• Story Quarterly, 2003
• Virginia Quarterly Review, 2002
• Five Points, 2001
• Virginia Quarterly Review, 2000
• GQ, 1999
• Esquire, 1999
• Mid-American Review, 1999
• Story, 1998
• The New Yorker, 1998
• The Paris Review, 1998
• The Paris Review, 1997
• Virginia Quarterly Review, 1996
• Playboy, 1996
• The Crescent Review, 1996
• Shenandoah, 1996
• Blue Penny Quarterly, 1995

Fiction in Anthologies

• New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2004
• Best American Mystery Stories, 2004
• New Stories in the South: The Year’s Best, 2003
• New Stories From the South: The Year's Best, 1999
• Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops, 1997
• Writers in the Information Age: The Best of The Net, 1996