[Yale-readings] Fiction Reading: Allen Wier at SCSU 2-19, 8 pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

>  Allen Wier (pronounced Wire) will read from his fiction Thursday, 
> February 19th at 8 p.m. in EN A120.  Wier is the author of a collection 
> of stories, Things About to Disappear(LSU Press and Avon/Bard), and three 
> novels, Blanco (LSU Press, Avon/Bard, and Harper & Row), Departing as Air 
> (Simon & Schuster), A Place for Outlaws (Harper & Row). He's edited an 
> anthology, Walking on Water and other stories (Univ. of Alabama Press), 
> and co-edited Voicelust, a collection of essays on style in contemporary 
> fiction (Univ. of Nebraska Press). In 1997 he received the Chubb 
> LifeAmerica Robert Penn Warren Award, conferred by the Fellowship of 
> Southern Writers biennially to "recognize an outstanding young Southern 
> writer of fiction." Wier is also the recipient of a Guggenheim 
> Fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a 
> Dobie-Paisano Fellowship from the University of Texas and the Texas 
> Institute of Letters. His fiction, essays, and reviews appear in such 
> publications as Southern Review, Five Points, Georgia Review, 
> Ploughshares, Texas Review, and the New York Times. He was named Travel 
> Writer of the Year (1994) by the Alabama Bureau of Travel. Wier recently 
> completed a long historical novel, CLOUD OF WITNESSES, set in Texas 
> during the Comanche wars, and he is completing a literary thriller, SKIN 
> FOR SKIN, as well as a volume of new and selected short stories. In 2001 
> he was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers and 
> was inducted at the FSW s biennial meeting in April 2003. He has taught 
> at Longwood College, Carnegie-Mellon university, Hollins College, the 
> University of Texas, Florida International University, and the University 
> of Alabama. Born in Texas, an only child, he grew up in Texas, Louisiana 
> and Mexico--where his father explored the jungles of Veracruz seeking 
> ferns and flowers to import for the wholesale flower business in San 
> Antonio. Allen Wier has received the Distinguished Teaching Chair in the 
> English Department at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he 
> lives with his wife, Donnie, and their son, Wesley.

Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047
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