Education
Washington University in Saint Louis. East Carolina University.
Washington University in Saint Louis. East Carolina University.
His first novel, Watching television with the Red Chinese, was published in 1992 and was made into a feature film in 2010. 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 Bachelor of Arts in English from East Carolina University and his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Louis. He is Professor of English at East Carolina University, where he also edits Tar River Poetry.