​Luke Whisnant is the author of Watching TV with the Red Chinese, a novel; Down in the Flood, a collection of stories; Street and Above Floodstage, a narrative poem; poetry chapbooks; and In the Debris Field, a novella and winner of the 2018 Bath Flash Fiction International Novella-in-Flash Award. His fiction and poetry have been published in the U.S. in over fifty different magazines and journals, including Esquire, Arts & Letters, American Short Fiction, and many others, and internationally in Frank (France), Revista Neo (Portugal), and Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine (England). His work also appears in several anthologies, including Racing Home: New Stories by Award-Winning North Carolina Writers, This Is Where We Live: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers, and The Southern Poetry Anthology.  A Professor at East Carolina University, he has served as editor or associate editor of Tar River Poetry, a nationally ranked magazine of verse, for thirty years.

Luke will be presenting a workshop on Flash Fiction Writing at the Pamlico Writers Conference in April 2020.