Jeffrey Renard Allen
Jeffrey Renard Allen (born 1962 Chicago) is an American poet and novelist.[1]
Life
He graduated the University of Illinois at Chicago, with a Ph.D.
He teaches at Queens College,[2] The New School for Social Research, and is a fellow at the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers.[3]
His work appeared in The Antioch Review,[4] Arkansas Review, African Voices, African American Review, Bomb,[5] Black Renaissance Noire, Callaloo,[6] The Chicago Tribune, Hambone, The Literary Review, Notre Dame Review, Other Voices, Poets & Writers, Ploughshares, StoryQuarterly, Triquarterly, and XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics.
He lives in Far Rockaway, Queens.[7][8]
Awards
- Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Fiction.
- The 21st Century Award Chicago Public Library
- 2001 The John Farrar Fellow - Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference
- 1989 The P.E.N Discovery Prize
- 2002 Whiting Writers' Award
Works
- Harbors and Spirits (Moyer Bell, 1999) Asphodel, 1999 ISBN 9781559212083
- Rails Under My Back: novel. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 2000. ISBN 9780374246266.
- Stellar Places (Moyer Bell 2007) Asphodel Press, 2007 ISBN 9781559213851
- Holding pattern: stories. Graywolf Press. 2008. ISBN 9781555975098.
Anthologies
- 110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11, New York University Press (September 11, 2002), ISBN 9780814799055
- Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry Keith Tuma (ed) Miami University Press (February 28, 2006) ISBN 9781881163473
- Homeground: Language for an American Landscape, Barry Lopez, Debra Gwartney (eds) Trinity University Press (October 2006) ISBN 9781595340245
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