Metz joined the Knox faculty in 1967. He is the author of more than 30 published short stories and poems and has given more than 50 readings throughout the United States. He has received numerous national and local awards for his writing, including grants from PEN/National Endowment for the Arts, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writing Fellows Program; and the GTE Corporation Lectureship Program in Technology, Environment and Responsibility.
The director of Knox's Creative Writing Program, he has won the Philip Green Wright-Lombard College Prize for Distinguished Teaching, and has served as the advisor to Catch, Knox's award-winning student literary magazine. His research interests include Carl Sandburg, Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway.
Metz received his BA from Princeton University and his MFA from the University of Iowa.
The Philip Sidney Post Professorship was established by the Chicago Knox Club in 1922 to memorialize Post, an 1887 Knox graduate who had a distinguished career as an attorney and judge in Galesburg and as vice president of International Harvester Company in Chicago. Post was a trustee of the College from 1901 until his death in 1920. The Post Professorship is a college-wide appointment that recognizes outstanding scholarship and teaching. The most recent holder of the Post professorship is Wilbur Pillsbury, professor emeritus of economics.
Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college, located in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,100 students from 42 states and 33 nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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