Name Allen Wier | Role Writer | |
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Books Tehano, Things about to disappear, A place for outlaws, Departing as air, New Millennium Writings, Blanco. Novel Education Bowling Green State University (1974), Louisiana State University (1970) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | ||
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Allen Wier (pronounced "wire"), is an American writer and a professor at the University of Tennessee.
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Wier was born in 1946 in San Antonio, Texas and spent parts of his childhood in Louisiana and Mexico. He taught at Longwood College, Carnegie-Mellon University, Hollins College, the University of Texas, Florida International University, and the University of Alabama where he directed the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing. He held the Hodge's Chair for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Tennessee and, 2016-2019, the Watkins Endowed Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Murray State University.
In 2003, Wier was inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers, along with Barry Hannah and Yusef Komunyakaa. He is widely published in anthologies and periodicals, including The New York Times, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. Wier was previously married to the poet Dara Wier.