Michael McFee – 2009 James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South recipient – has published nine collections of poetry, most recently The Smallest Talk. His first collection of essays is The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview. He has also edited This is Where We Live: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers, a companion anthology to his The Language They Speak is Things to Eat: Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Speaking Schedule

Friday, April 3
Reading
11:00 a.m.

Grant Support Provided By

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Community Trust - Chazen Family Foundation - The Kennedy Foundation - Lyndhurst Foundation - Public Education Foundation - Tennessee Arts Commisson - UC Foundation

Media Sponsors

Brewer Media - Chattarati - WDEF News 12 - WUTC 88.1

Program Partners

Anonymous Gift - Baylor School - Medium - Olan & Norma Mills II

Book Patrons

L. Hardwick & Kitty Caldwell - Memorial Healthcare System - The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the UTC Department of English - Wild Hare Books

AEC is a funded member of Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga.

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