Jeffery Renard Allen

Jeffery Renard Allen has worked with developing writers around the African continent. In 2006, he taught for the Kwani. Jeffery Renard Allen was awarded The P.E.N. Discovery Prize in 1989. His widely celebrated novel, Rails Under My Back, won the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize for Fiction. His story collection Holding Pattern won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. He has also been awarded a Whiting Award. Read more! https://cannellagency.com/jeffery-renard-allen