Jeffrey Renard Allen
Encyclopedia
Life
He graduated the University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop...
, with a Ph.D.
He teaches at Queens College, The New School
The New School
The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University...
for Social Research, and is a fellow at the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers.
His work appeared in The Antioch Review, Arkansas Review, African Voices, African American Review, Bomb, Black Renaissance Noire, Callaloo, 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
Far Rockaway, Queens
Far Rockaway is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States. It is the easternmost section of the Rockaways. The neighborhood starts at the Nassau County line and extends west to Beach 32nd Street. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community...
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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' AwardWhiting Writers' AwardThe Whiting Writers' Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. As of 2007, winners receive US $50,000.-External links:**...
Works
- Harbors and Spirits (Moyer Bell, 1999) Asphodel, 1999 ISBN 9781559212083
- Stellar Places (Moyer Bell 2007) Asphodel Press, 2007 ISBN 9781559213851
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