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Luke Whisnant
Luke Whisnant
Born	1957 (age 66–67)
Occupation	Novelist; short story writer; poet;
Nationality	American
Education	East Carolina University (BA); Washington University in St. Louis (MFA)

Luke Whisnant (born 1957) is an American novelist, short story writer and poet. His first novel, Watching TV with the Red Chinese, was published in 1992^[1] and was made into a feature film in 2010.^[2] Street, a poetry chapbook, was published in 1990; Down in the Flood, a collection of short stories, appeared in 2006; and Above Floodstage, an 800-line narrative poem, was published in 2014. Whisnant earned his B.A. in English from East Carolina University and his M.F.A. in creative writing from Washington University in St. Louis.^[3] He is Professor of English at East Carolina University, where he also edits Tar River Poetry.^[4]

Works

Street. Portlandville NY: MAF Press, 1990. ISBN 978-1477490204
Watching TV with the Red Chinese. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1992. ISBN 978-0-945575-83-2
Down in the Flood. Knoxville: Iris, 2006. ISBN 978-0-916078-70-6
Above Floodstage: A Narrative Poem. Georgetown KY: Finishing Line, 2014. ISBN 978-1-62229-635-4

References

^ "Luke Whisnant Faculty Profile". East Carolina University. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
^ "Internet Movie Database Page for Watching TV with the Red Chinese". IMDb. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
^ Robinson, Lorraine Hale (2007). "Dictionary of North Carolina Writers: Alfred Moore Waddell to Jose Zuniga". North Carolina Literary Review. 16: 233.
^ "Tar River Poetry Web Site". Retrieved 2013-04-25.