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Jeffery Renard Allen An Award-Winning Author Of Five Books Of Fiction And Poetry

Jeffery Renard Allen is an award-winning author and poet who has been writing for over two decades. His works have been praised by critics and readers alike. He has won numerous awards such as the Lannan Literary Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Pushcart Prize. His works explore themes of race, identity, history, and culture. He is a master storyteller whose work has captivated audiences around the world.

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Jeffery Renard Allen An Award-Winning Author Of Five Books Of Fiction And Poetry

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  1. Jeffery Renard Allen An Award-Winning Author Of Five Books Of Fiction And Poetry www.authorjefferyrenardallen.com

  2. Born and raised in Chicago, Jeffery Renard Allen is the award-winning author of five books of fiction and poetry, including the celebrated novel Song of the Shank, which was a front-page review in both The New York Times Book Review and The San Francisco Chronicle. Winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award, the novel was also a Dublin LiteraryPrize nominee and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Jeffery Renard Allen

  3. Jeffery Renard Allen has sought to support emerging writers and literary culture on the African continentthrough the Pan African Literary Forum and the Jahazi Jazz and Literature Festival in Zanzibar. Now he has created Taint, an innovative online magazine that will put in work, including the staging of conferences and other events. The Taint Writer’s Workshop and Retreat will take place in Marrakesh in June 2022.

  4. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Harbors and Spirits (Moyer Bell, 1999) and Stellar Places (Moyer Bell, 2007), and three works of fiction, the novel Rails Under My Back (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000), a story collection Holding Pattern (Graywolf Press, 2008) and a second novel, Song of the Shank (Graywolf Press, 2014). www.authorjefferyrenardallen.com

  5. 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 www.authorjefferyrenardallen.com

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