Abstract Michael Fleming Parker was a professor in the MFA Creative Writing program at UNCG from 1992-2019. He received his Bachelor of Arts from UNC Chapel Hill in 1984 and his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia in 1988. Over the course of his career, Parker published ten books and dozens of articles and essays. He was the first to hold the UNCG Nicholas and Nancy Vacc Distinguished Professorship and won many awards, including the Mary Hobson Award in Arts and...