Allen Wier

Allen Wier (pronounced "wire"), is an American writer and a professor at the University of Tennessee.

Wier was born in 1946 in San Antonio, Texas and spent parts of his childhood in Louisiana and Mexico. He 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. He held the Hodge's Chair for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Tennessee and, 2016-2019, the Watkins Endowed Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Murray State University.

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

Education

Awarded the 27th John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, presented in November, 2008
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
Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction—Fellowship of Southern Writers, 1997
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)

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