Gilbert Allen

Poet, Fiction Writer

Travelers Rest, SC

South Carolina US

Email:

gil.allen@furman.edu

Website:

libguides.furman.edu/special-coll…

Author's Bio

Although I was born and raised on Long Island, I've lived in upstate South Carolina for most of my life, and I was elected to the South Carolina Academy of Authors in 2014. If you're curious about my family history, check out my sequence of poems Forty Years North of Dreamland (in the 2015 issue of Measure), my long poem The World of Tomorrow (in the Spring 2008 issue of The Southern Review), my 2007 essay How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Swamp in South Carolina (in Living Blue in the Red States), and my interview in Conversations with South Carolina Poets (John F. Blair, 1986). The best source for online samples of my work is http://libguides.furman.edu/special-coll...

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Anthologies:

Topograph: New Writing from the Carolinas and the Landscape Beyond (Novello Festival Press, 2010)

Tartts Four (Livingston Press, 2008)

Tartts Three (Livingston Press, 2007)

In a Fine Frenzy (University of Iowa Press, 2005)

Food and Other Enemies: Stories of Consuming Desire (Essex Press, 2000)

Books:

The Beasts of Belladonna (Slant, 2020)

The Final Days of Great American Shopping (University of South Carolina Press, 2016)

Journals:

Able Muse

China Grove

Connecticut Review

Eclectica

Evansville Review

Pembroke Magazine

Shenandoah

South Carolina Review

Southeast Review

Southern Review

Tampa Review

Poetry

Anthologies:

Archive: South Carolina Poetry Since 2005 (Ninety-Six Press, 2018)

South Carolina Voices: Poetry and Prose (Atheneum, 2018)

Jiggery-Pokery Semicentennial (Waywiser Press, 2017)

American Society: What Poets See (FutureCycle Press, 2012)

The Southern Poetry Anthology: Contemporary Appalachia (Texas Review Press, 2010)

Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose About Alzheimer's Disease (Kent State University Press, 2009)

The Southern Poetry Anthology: South Carolina (Texas Review Press, 2007)

Illuminations (Celestial Arts an imprint of Ten Speed Pres, 2006)

A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry (Ninety-Six Press, 2005)

Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge (Grayson Books, 2003)

Books:

Believing in Two Bodies (Kelsay Books, 2020)

Catma (Measure Press, 2014)

Driving to Distraction (Orchises Press, 2003)

Commandments at Eleven (Orchises Press, 1994)

Second Chances (Orchises Press, 1991)

In Everything (Lotus Press, Inc., 1982)

Chapbook:

Body Parts (South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2007)

Journals:

Able Muse

American Scholar

Appalachian Journal

Appalachian Heritage

Cumberland Poetry Review

Eclectica

Epoch

First Things

Florida Review

Flyway

Georgia Review

Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion

Image Journal

Kakalak

Measure

Miramar Poetry Journal

New Verse News

Poetry Daily

Quarterly West

Sewanee Theological Review

Shenandoah

Smartish Pace

South Carolina Review

Southern Poetry Review

Southern Quarterly

Southern Review

Crazyhorse

The Writer's Almanac

Tipton Poetry Journal

Valparaiso Poetry Review

Verse Daily

Your Daily Poem

Prizes won:

Nancy Dew Taylor Poetry Award from Emrys Journal (2018); Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XXXVII (2013); Elizabeth Simpson Smith Short Story Award (2010); Robert Penn Warren Prize in Poetry from The Southern Review (2007); South Carolina Poetry Initative Chapbook Prize (2006); South Carolina Literary Arts Fellowship (2002-03); Rainmaker Award in Poetry from Zone 3 (1990); Amon Liner Poetry Award from The Greensboro Review (1984); five-time winner of the South Carolina Fiction Project Prize; Porter Fleming Poetry and Fiction Awards

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Appalachian

Prefers to work with:

Any

Born in:

Rockville Centre, NY

New York

Raised in:

Hempstead and West Islip, NY

New York

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Last update: Nov 29, 2023