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,[1]Story magazine, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, and Southwest Review. He lives in Vermillion, South Dakota.

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