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Jeffery Renard Allen



Jeffery Renard Allen is the author of two collections of poetry, Stellar Places (Moyer Bell, 2007) and Harbors and Spirits (Moyer Bell, 1999), and a collection of short stories

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Rails Under My Back (2000)
   Song of the Shank (2014)
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Collections
   Harbors & Spirits (poems) (1999)
   Stellar Places (poems) (2007)
   Holding Pattern (2008)
   Fat Time and Other Stories (2023)
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Jeffery Renard Allen recommends
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Coleman Hill (2023)
Kim Coleman Foote
"This stunning debut stitches together a rich, layered narrative of two connected and conflicted African American families. These people endure misfortunes from one generation to the next, their lives offering heartfelt testimony to our ability as Black people in this country to make a way out of no way."
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Creatures of Passage (2021)
Morowa Yejidé
"Although set in our recent past, Creatures of Passage is at heart a powerful ghost story about people haunted by the shadows of time and the shadows of blood. In the pages of this novel we discover a world that is fully recognizable, as concrete and real as Toni Morrison's Ohio, but also as fantastic and mythical as Gabriel García Márquez's Macondo. That said, make no mistake: Morowa Yejidé is a masterful storyteller in her own right, able to spin and sustain an inventive tale illuminated by a singular truth, that death is 'another form of living."

Anthologies containing stories by Jeffery Renard Allen
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Chicago Noir (2005)
(Akashic Noir)
edited by
Neal Pollack
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Gumbo (2002)
A Celebration of African American Writing
edited by
Marita Golden and E Lynn Harris

Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (2015) : Song of the Shank


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