Michael McFee has taught poetry writing at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1990. He is the author of ten books of poetry—most recently That Was Oasis (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012), a full-length collection, and The Smallest Talk (Bull City Press, 2007), a chapbook of one-line poem—and his second collection of essays,Appointed Rounds, is forthcoming from Mercer University Press. In 2009, he received the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South, from the Fellowship of Southern Writers.