Allen Wier

Allen Wier has received an NEA grant, Guggenheim and Dobie-Paisano Fellowships, the Fellowship of Southern Writers' Robert Penn Warren Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. He's taught at Carnegie-Mellon, Hollins, the University of Alabama, University of New Orleans's Edinburg Workshop, Florida International, the University of Texas, and the University of Tennessee. Currently the visiting writer at Murray State University, Allen Wier lives with his artist wife, Donnie,...See more

Allen Wier has received an NEA grant, Guggenheim and Dobie-Paisano Fellowships, the Fellowship of Southern Writers' Robert Penn Warren Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. He's taught at Carnegie-Mellon, Hollins, the University of Alabama, University of New Orleans's Edinburg Workshop, Florida International, the University of Texas, and the University of Tennessee. Currently the visiting writer at Murray State University, Allen Wier lives with his artist wife, Donnie, overlooking Lake Guntersville in Alabama. See less