Preston L. Allen
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Preston L. Allen

Literature & Fiction | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Preston L. Allen grew up in Boston and Miami, where as eldest brother of five he learned to tell stories to entertain the others while their parents were at work. A recipient of a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Fiction and winner of the Sonja H. Stone Prize in Literature, he is author of the short story collection Churchboys and Other Sinners (Carolina Wren Press 2003) and the novels All or Nothing (2007), Jesus Boy (2010), Every Boy Should Have a Man (2013), and his latest I Disappeared Them (2024). His short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals and have been anthologized in Miami Noir, Las Vegas Noir, Brown Sugar, Wanderlust, Making the Hook Up, and Here We Are: an Anthology of South Florida Writers. All or Nothing: "As a cartographer of autodegradation, Allen takes his place on a continuum that begins, perhaps, with Dostoyevsky’s Gambler, courses through Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, William S. Burroughs’s Junky, and the collected works of Charles Bukowski and Hubert Selby Jr.”—New York Times Book Review Jesus Boy: “Perfect timing and crackling dialogue, as well as heartrending pain balanced by uproarious predicaments, make for a shout-hallelujah tale of transgression and grace, a gospel of lusty and everlasting love.”—Booklist Every Boy Should Have a Man: Every Boy Should Have a Man is James Baldwin meets Aldous Huxley, a twisted contortion of a weird fairy tale future gone wrong, all told from high atop the mountain in a sort of New Testament prose.”—Chicago Tribune. I Disappeared Them: “Like Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Joyce Carol Oates's Zombie, Preston L. Allen's immersive narrative hauntingly occupies the peculiar psychological landscape of a murderer.” Asked why his books cover such a wide range of subjects, Allen answers, “The characters live in my head, banging the walls, shouting to be heard. When they tell me their stories, I write them. I’m a pretty good listener.” Preston L. Allen holds a BA in English from the University of Florida and an MFA in creative writing from Florida International University. He lives and teaches writing in South Florida.
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