Alan Michael Parker is a writer and cartoonist. The author of four novels, eight books of poetry, he has won a number of awards for his work; in 2021, he judged the National Book Award in fiction. AMP holds the Houchens Chair in English at Davidson College in North Carolina. His next book will be a collection of flash fictions, Bingo cards, and ephemera: BINGO BANGO BOINGO (Dzanc Books, 2024); he contributes a weekly cartoon to Identity Theory magazine.