Allen Wier

Selected Publications

Novels and Story Collections: Tehano (Southern Methodist University Press, 2006)
A Place for Outlaws (Harper & Row, 1989)
Departing as Air (Simon & Schuster, 1983)
Blanco (LSU Press, 1978)
Things About to Disappear (LSU Press, 1978).

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

Knoxville Bound, KWG, 2004
The Cry of An Occasion, LSU Press 2001
The Gulf Coast Collection of Stories and Poems, Texas Center for Writers Press, 1994
That's What I Like (About the South), U. of S. Carolina Press, 1983
The Wedding Cake in the Middle of the Road, Wm. Morrow, 1992
A Pocketful of Prose, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1992
PEN Syndicated Fiction Project--NPR's "The Sound of Fiction," 1990
Best of the West, Peregrine Smith, 1988
Prize Stories Texas Institute of Letters, Still Point Press, 1986
Best of Intro, Associated Writing Programs, 1985
Studies in the Short Story, 6th ed., Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984
Fiction of the Southwest, Bantam, 1981
Carry Me Back, Gallimaufry Press, 1978
Itinerary IV, Bowling Green Univ. Press, 1977
Intro 6, Doubleday/Anchor, 1974
Itinerary I, Bowling Green Univ. Press, 1974.

“Sharpshooter: David Madden’s Verbal Sketchbook of the Civil War” (forthcoming in vol. From Univ. of Tenn. Press, 2005)
The Sewanee Review, Spring 2005
Bad Man Blues: A Portable George Garrett (introduction), SMU Press, 1998
George Garrett: The Elizabethan Trilogy, Texas Review Press, 1998
A Goyen Companion: Appreciations of a Writer's Writer, U. of Texas Press, 1997
NY Times Sunday Magazine "Sophisticated Traveler," 3/6/94
State Lines, Texas A & M Press, 1993
Mid-American Review, Spring, 1993
Writers and Their Craft, Wayne State U. Press, 1991
Houston Chronicle "Texas," (Sunday magazine) 7/2/89
Texas Review, 1989
Black Warrior Review, Spring 1989
The Meaning of Life, Chicago Review Press, 1989
Rediscoveries II, Carrol and Graf, 1988
Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 1988
Black Warrior Review, Spring 1988
Southern Review, Spring 1985.

Novel Talent, by Brynna Hall, Tennessee Alumnus, 2004
Contemporary; Contemporary Novelists 7th ed., St. James Press, 2000
Growing Up Southern: Profiles of Contemporary Southern Writers, Fred Brown and Jeanne McDonald, eds., Emerald House, 1997.

Selected by Graduate Students in English as “most outstanding professor in the classroom”, 2005
“The Taste of Dirt”, short story cited for “Special Mention” in the Pushcart Prize volume for 2005; Elected to membership in The Fellowship of Southern Writers, April 2001
Distinguished Teaching Chair, 2000-2003
Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Achievement, University of Tennessee, 1998
Chubb LifeAmerica Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction--Fellowship of Southern Writers, 1997
Travel Writer of the Year 1994--Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel
Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction
Dobie-Paisano Fellowship--Univ. of Texas and Texas Institute of Letters
Breadloaf Fellowship
Texas Institute of Letters Award in Short Fiction
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Allen Wier
Professor
Department of English
406 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6956
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: awier@utk.edu
Website: http://allenwier.com

B.A., Baylor University
M.A., Louisiana State University
M.F.A., Bowling Green University.

Creative Writing, Contemporary Fiction