Roberta Allen

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Roberta Allen is the author of eight books, including two collections of short fiction, The Traveling Woman (Vehicle Editions) and Certain People (Coffee House Press); a novella in short short stories, The Daughter (Autonomedia); a memoir, Amazon Dream (City Lights); the novel The Dreaming Girl (Painted Leaf, 2000, and Ellipsis Press, 2011); and several writing guides.

Allen was on the faculty of The New School for many years and has also taught at Columbia University. She was a Tennessee Williams Fellow in fiction in 1998. An established visual artist, she has exhibited worldwide, with work in the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.