Ed Allen (writer)

Edward Allen (born 1948) is an American novelist and short story writer.

Life
Allen was born in New Haven, Connecticut, grew up in New York, graduated from Goddard College, and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1972.

He graduated from Ohio University with an M.A. in 1986 and a Ph.D. in 1989.

He taught at Rhodes College in Memphis, the University of Central Oklahoma, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland as a Senior Fulbright Fellow, San Jose State University, and the University of South Dakota.

His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Story magazine, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, and Southwest Review.

His novel, Mustang Sally, published in 1992, was purchased and made into a film called Easy Six. It was submitted to the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.

He lives in Vermillion, South Dakota where he is an English Professor.

Awards

 * 2002 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
 * 1994-1995 Senior Fulbright Fellowship

Poetry

 * The Clean Place Ohio University, June 1989