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Jeffrey Renard Allen
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Jeffrey Renard Allen is an award-wining author who has published two books, Harbors and Spirits (Moyer Bell), a collection of poems, and the novel, Rails Under My Back (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000), which won The Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Fiction. His essays, reviews, fiction, and poetry have appeared in several anthologies and numerous publications, including Triquarterly, Ploughshares, Bomb, The Antioch Review, StoryQuarterly, African Voices, African American Review, Callaloo, Other Voices, and The Literary Review. In fall of 2006, Moyer Bell will publish his second collection of poems, Stellar Places. Currently an Associate Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, and an instructor in the graduate writing programs at New School University and Columbia University, Jeffery Renard Allen was born in Chicago in 1962 and holds a Ph.D. in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Allen is presently at work on the novel Song of the Shank, based on the life of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth century piano virtuoso and composer who performed under the stage name Blind Tom. |
E. Ethelbert Miller
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E. Ethelbert Miller is author author of eight books: Andromeda (1974); The Land of Smiles and the Land of No Smiles (1974); Migrant Worker (1978); Season of Hunger/Cry of Rain (1982); Where are the Love Poems for Dictators? (1986, reprinted in 2001); First Light (1994) Whispers, Secrets and Promises (1998); Fathering Words: The Making of An African American Writer (2000); Buddha Weeping In Winter (2001); How We Sleep On The Nights We Don't Make Love (2004). He is also the editor of four anthologies, including the critically acclaimed, In Search of Color Everywhere, winner of the 1994 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Winner of numerous awards, including the O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize, Miller considers himself a "literary activist" and serves on the boards of many organizations, include the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), the Writer's Center and the African American Literature and Culture Society. He was Director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University and has been a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars. For more information on E. Ethelbert Miller go to his webpage: http://www.eethelbertmiller.com/main.html |
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Center for Black Literature
Dr. Brenda M. Greene
Medgar Evers College, CUNY
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Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225
bgreene@mec.cuny.edu
Plattsburgh State
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