Allen Wier

Allen Wier (pronounced "wire"), a writer born in 1946 in San Antonio, Texas and spent parts of his childhood in Louisiana and Mexico. He is a professor at the University of Tennessee. He has 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.

In 2003, Wier was inducted into the prestigious Fellowship of Southern Writers along with Barry Hannah and Yusef Komunyakaa among others. He is widely published in anthologies and periodicals, including The New York Times, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. He was previously married to the poet Dara Wier.

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Special mention for his short story "The Taste of Dirt" in the Pushcart Prize volume 2005
Inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 2003
University of Tennessee Distinguished Teaching Chair, 2000-2003
University of Tennessee Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Achievement, 1998
Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction--Fellowship of Southern Writers, 1997
Travel Writer of the Year--Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel, 1994
Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction
Dobie-Paisano Fellowship--University of Texas and Texas Institute of Letters
Breadloaf Fellowship
Texas Institute of Letters Award in Short Fiction
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

(editor) Walking on Water and other stories (University of Alabama Press 1996)
(editor) Voicelust: Eight Contemporary Writers on Style (University of Nebraska Press 1985)