Michael Knight

Michael Knight is an American author and professor of creative writing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, born on December 15, 1969, in Mobile, Alabama. He holds degrees from Hampden-Sydney College (BA), University of Southern Mississippi (MA), and University of Virginia (MFA), and is known for novels such as *The Typist* and *Divining Rod*, short story collections including *Eveningland* (winner of the Truman Capote Prize) and *Goodnight, Nobody*, and the novella collection *The Holiday Season*. His stories have appeared in prestigious publications like *The New Yorker*, *Paris Review*, and *Ploughshares*, earning awards including the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Special Citation and the John and Renee Grisham Emerging Southern Writers Award.