Jeffery Renard Allen – Truly Multitalented Personality

JEFFERY
RENARD ALLEN

Jeffery Renard Allen – Truly Multitalented Personality

ABOUT

JEFFERY RENARD ALLEN

Jeffery Renard Allen is 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.

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).

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.

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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