Ampydoo Cartoon #119

Alan Michael Parker has published four novels and one book of stories, nine books of poetry, and coedited five other volumes. His next book, Bounce! A Guide to Single-Panel Cartoons, will be published by Duke University Press in 2027. His various awards and honors include the North Carolina Book Award, multiple selections in the Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize anthologies, the Fineline Prize, the Lunate500 Prize (UK), and the Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America. In 2021, he judged the National Book Award in fiction; in 2024, he judged the PEN/Faulkner Award in fiction. He teaches at Davidson College, where he holds the Houchens Professorship and chairs the Department of English.