 Allen Wier (pronounced Wire) has published three novels: A Place for Outlaws (Harper & Row, 1989), Departing as Air (Simon & Schuster, 1983), and Blanco (LSU Press 1978, Avon/Bard 1980, and Harper & Row 1989) and a collection of stories, Things About to Disappear (LSU Press 1978 and Avon/Bard 1980). A new novel, TEHANO, is just out, 2006, from Southern Methodist University Press. He's edited an anthology, Walking on Water and other stories (Univ. of Alabama Press 1996), and co-edited Voicelust, a collection of essays ‘on style in contemporary fiction’ (Univ. of Nebraska Press 1985). In 1997 he received the Robert Penn Warren Award, conferred by the Fellowship of Southern Writers biennially to "recognize an outstanding young Southern writer of fiction." In 2001 he was voted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In 2005 the graduate students in the University of Tennessee’s Department of English voted Wier the department’s “most outstanding professor in the classroom.” He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship from the University of Texas and the Texas Institute of Letters. His fiction, essays, and reviews appear in such publications as Southern Review, Five Points, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and the New York Times. He was named Travel Writer of the Year (1994) by the Alabama Bureau of Travel. Wier has recently completed the draft of a novel, SKIN FOR SKIN, and he is completing a new volume of short stories. He has taught at Longwood College, Carnegie-Mellon University, Hollins College, the University of Texas, Florida International University, and the University of Alabama. Born in Texas an only child, he grew up in Texas, Louisiana, and Mexico--where his father explored the jungles of Veracruz seeking ferns and flowers to import for the wholesale flower business in San Antonio. Allen Wier has received the Hodges’ Chair for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he lives with his artist wife, Donnie, and their musician son, Wesley.
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