Allen Wier

Allen Wier

Department of English
University of Tennessee
301 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430
Phone: 865-679-4585
E-mail: awier@utk.edu

Author's Bio

Currently at work on a novel-in-progress and a book-length memoir as well as short fiction and essays.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

Tehano (Southern Methodist University Press, 2006), A Place for Outlaws (Harper & Row, 1989), Departing As Air (Simon & Schuster, 1983), Blanco (Avon/Bard, 1980), Things About to Disappear (Avon/Bard, 1980)

Journals:

Five Points, Shenandoah, Southern Review

Prizes:

John Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 2008; Robert Penn Warren Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers; Guggenheim Fellowship; NEA Fellowship; TN Arts Council Individual Artists' Grant; Travel Writer of the Year (1994) from the Alabama Bureau of Travel; graduate students in the University of Tennessee’s Department of English voted Wier the department’s “most outstanding professor in the classroom; Awarded Hodges Distinguished Teaching Char, Univ. of Tennessee.

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Listing last updated: December 12, 2012

More Information

Listed as:

Fiction Writer

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Born in:

San Antonio, TX

Raised in:

Texas, Mexico, Louisiana, TX