Jeffery Renard Allen

Jeffery Renard Allen is the author of two poetry collections, two novels, and a story collection. His essays, reviews, fiction, and poetry have appeared in many publications and anthologies. Born in Chicago, he holds a PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a professor of English at Queens College, as well as an instructor in the writing program at the New School and at New York University. He is the fiction director at the Norman Mailer Center Writers Colony and has...See more

Jeffery Renard Allen is the author of two poetry collections, two novels, and a story collection. His essays, reviews, fiction, and poetry have appeared in many publications and anthologies. Born in Chicago, he holds a PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a professor of English at Queens College, as well as an instructor in the writing program at the New School and at New York University. He is the fiction director at the Norman Mailer Center Writers Colony and has also taught for Cave Canem, the Farafina Writers Workshop in Lagos, the VONA workshop for writers of color, the Summer Literary Seminars program in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Nairobi, Kenya, and in the writing program at Columbia University. See less