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Alan Michael Parker, or AMP, has written four novels: Cry Uncle, Whale Man, The Committee on Town Happiness, and Christmas in July. He is also the author of nine collections of poems. AMP’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Pleiades, and The Yale Review, among other magazines, and twice in The Best American Poetry annual; his prose has appeared in journals including The Believer, The New York Times Book Review, and The New Yorker. New cartoons and flash fictions of his may be found in Fiction Kitchen (Berlin), LITRO, New Flash Fiction Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He has received numerous awards for his writing, including the 2020 Lunate500 Prize for his story, “Unemployment Benefits,” the 2019 Randall Jarrell Prize for his poem, “Psalm,” the 2018 Joanna Catherina Scott Award for his poem, “Virtual Villanelle,” and the 2017 Brockman-Campbell Award for The Ladder (an annual prize for the best book of poetry published in the state of North Carolina); along with three Pushcart Prizes, the Fineline Prize from the Mid-American Review, the 2013 and the 2014 Randall Jarrell Award, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the 2012 North Carolina Book Award for Long Division. https://alanmichaelparker.com/
