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Jeffery Renard Allen – Truly Multitalented Personality

<br>Jeffery Renard Allen has been a fellow at a John Farrar Fellow in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Dorothy L. and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library, and a Walter E. Dakins Fellow in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. For more information click the below link!

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Jeffery Renard Allen – Truly Multitalented Personality

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  1. JEFFERY RENARD ALLEN Jeffery Renard Allen – Truly Multitalented Personality

  2. ABOUT JEFFERY RENARD ALLEN Jeffery RenardAllenis an Essayist, Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer, and an Editor. Also, he is a Professor in the Creative Writing program at the University of Virginia. Jeffery Renard Allen is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and was a resident at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. Recently, Jeffery has also taught for the Iowa Summer Writers' Festival, Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the DISQUIET International Literary Program in Portugal.

  3. JEFFERY RENARD ALLEN'S WORK Jeffery Renard Allen is one of many notable writers in the New York Times feature, "Black Male Writers for Our Time," which highlights the work created and the honors received by these writers. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1962 and raised on the South Side of Chicago. He attended public schools in Chicago and completed all his university education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Moreover, Jeffery holds a Ph.D. in English (Creative Writing).

  4. JEFFERY RENARD ALLEN CAREER Jeffery Renard Allen has taught in the writing program at Columbia University and in many distinguished writers' conferences and programs around the world, including Cave Canem, the Summer Literary Seminars Program in St. Petersburg (Russia), in Kenya, the Kwani LitFest, the Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Foundation, North Country Retreat for Writers of Color, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Farafina Trust Workshop in Lagos, in Singapore the American Writers Festival and VONA.

  5. JEFFERY'S AWARDS In 1989, he was awarded The P.E.N. Discovery Prize. His novel, 'Rails Under My Back' has won the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Fiction. Jeffery's story collection Holding Pattern won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Also, Allen was awarded a Whiting Award, the Chicago Public Library's Twenty-First Century Award, the 2003 Charles Angoff Award for Fiction from The Literary Review, and special citations from the Society for Midlands Authors & the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. In 2015, Jeffery received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction.

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