By Sean Olson, University Relations
"Tehano" is Allan Wier's latest novel.
UNCG will host a fiction reading by novelist Allen Wier at 8 p.m. April 20.
The reading, sponsored by the MFA Writing Program and the Greensboro Review, will be held at the UNCG Faculty Center on College Avenue and is free and open to the public.
Wier is the author of four novels: “A Place for Outlaws,” “Departing as Air,” “Blanco,” and “Tehano,” his latest work. He has also published a collection of short stories, “Things About to Disappear.”
In addition to his fiction writing, he edited the anthology “Walking on Water and Other Stories” and co-edited “Voicelust,” a collection of essays on contemporary fiction.
In 1997, the Fellowship of Southern Writers awarded him the Robert Penn Warren Award, recognizing Wier as “an outstanding young Southern writer of fiction.” In 2001, he was voted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship from the University of Texas and the Texas Institute of Letters.
His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications such as Southern Review, Five Points, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and the New York Times.
Wier is a professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he lives with his artist wife, Donnie, and their musician son, Wesley.
