Ed Allen (writer)

Edward Allen (born 1948 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American novelist and short story writer.

Life

He grew up in New York, graduated from Goddard College, and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1972.

He graduated from Ohio University with an M.A. in 1986 and a Ph.D. in 1989.

He taught at Rhodes College in Memphis, the University of Central Oklahoma, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland as a Senior Fulbright Fellow, San Jose State University, and the University of South Dakota.

His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Story magazine, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, and Southwest Review.

He lives in Vermillion, South Dakota.

Awards

• 2002 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• 1994-1995 Senior Fulbright Fellowship

Works

Novels

• Straight Through the Night. SOHO Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-939149-36-0.
• Mustang Sally. W.W. Norton. 1992. ISBN 978-0-393-31156-3.

Non-fiction

• The Hands-On Fiction Workbook: An Activity-Based Approach to Fiction Writing. Prentice Hall. 1995. ISBN 978-0-13-238882-5.

Short Stories

• Ate It Anyway. University of Georgia. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8203-2558-3.

Poetry

• The Clean Place Ohio University, June 1989
• 67 Mixed Messages. Ahsahta Press, Boise State University. 2006. ISBN 978-0-916272-86-9.

Anthologies

• The Best American Short Stories, 1990. Houghton Mifflin. November 7, 1990. ISBN 978-0-395-51617-1.