Luke Whisnant, a two-time recipient of the Department's Bertie Fearing Excellence in Teaching Award, is the author of Street, a chapbook of poems; the story collection Down in the Flood, which won the department's research/creative activity award for 2006-2007; and the novel Watching TV with the Red Chinese, scheduled for release as an independent film in 2009. His fiction and poetry have been published in the U.S. in Esquire, Arts & Letters, American Short Fiction, Southern Poetry Review, Quick Fiction, Grand Street, North Carolina Literary Review 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!. He joined the ECU English faculty in 1982.
Degrees
B.A. East Carolina University
M.F.A. Washington University in St. Louis
Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
Creative Writing
Modern & Contemporary American Literature
The Short Story
Courses Taught
6880: Directed Readings In Creative Writing
6870: Literature from the Writer's Perspective
6865: Special Topics Seminar in Creative Writing
5860: Advanced Nonfiction Writing
5850: Advanced Fiction Writing
5280: Twentieth Century Poetry
5260: The Novel Since 1945
4510: Directed Readings
4300: Recent British & American Writers
3880: Writing for Business & Industry
3860: Introduction to Nonfiction Writing
3850: Introduction to Fiction Writing
3840: Introduction to Poetry Writing
3815: Introduction to Creative Writing
3420: The Short Story
3410: Introduction to Poetry
2200: Major American Writers
2000: Interpreting Literature
1200: Composition
1100: Composition
1000: Appreciating Literature
Selected Publications and Presentations
Down in the Flood. Knoxville: Iris P, 2006.
Watching TV with the Red Chinese. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1992.
"How To Build A House." New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2006. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2006.
"Across from the Motoheads." This Is Where We Live: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers. Chapel Hill: UNC P, 2000.)
"Connor's Story." Racing Home: New Stories by Award-Winning North Carolina Writers. Durham: Paper Journey, 2001.
Website Links
Graduate Creative Writing Program
Personal Site & Writing Samples
Watching TV with the Red Chinese (the film)
Creative Writing Student Anthologies
Curriculum Vitae
