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Jeffery Renard Allen
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Born in Chicago in 1962. PhD in English, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is currently Associate Professor of English at Queens College-CUNY. He is author of a book of poems, Harbors and Spirit, and a novel, Rails Under My Back, which won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for fiction. Other awards include a Whiting Writer's Award and the Chicago Public Library's Twenty-first Century Award. He has been a fellow of the Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library, a John Farrar Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Walter E. Dakins Fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. His essays, reviews, fiction, and poetry have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Poets & Writers, Ploughshares, BOMB, Antioch Review, African Voices, African American Review, Callaloo, Other Voices, Notre Dame Review, The Literary Review, and XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, as well as anthologies including 110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Jam Poetry Anthology, and Step into the World: A Global Anthology of Black Literature.
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