Alan Michael Parker has written four novels, including Christmas in July and The Committee on Town Happiness, and nine collections of poems. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College, his writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Believer, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. He has received three Pushcart Prizes, and two selections in Best American Poetry; new stories and cartoons have recently appeared or will appear in journals in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Bangladesh.

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