Luke Whisnant - Novel
Luke Whisnant is the author of Watching TV with the Red Chinese, a novel; Street, a chapbook of poems; and Down in the Flood, a collection of stories. His fiction and poetry have been published in the U.S. in Esquire, Arts & Letters, American Short Fiction, Southern Poetry Review, The Dos Passos Review, Grand Street, and others, and internationally in Frank (France) and Revista Neo (Portugal). His work also appears in the anthologies Racing Home and This Is Where We Live: Stories by 25
Contemporary NC Writers. Three of his stories have been reprinted in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and he has been included three times on The Best American Short Stories "Distinguished Story List." He is editor of Tar River Poetry Director of the ECU Poetry Forum, and co-host of the television series Write Now!, currently under production by Umbra/New Garden Films. Since 1982 he has taught at East Carolina University, in Greenville, NC, winning the department's Research/Creative Activity Award (2007) and the Excellence in Teaching Award (twice: 1997 and 2006). He also plays guitar and sings in the acoustic duo See You Tuesday and edits the Wildacres Tunnel , an electronic newsletter about the Wildacres Writers' Workshop. His website is http://personal.ecu.edu/whisnantl.