Rashuan J. Allen
Fiction
Peekskill, NY
Rashaun J. Allen is an Assistant Professor of English at Westchester Community College, who was also the first Fulbright scholar in SUNY Stony Brook’s MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program history. A Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Arts, Letters, and Numbers, and Ragdale residency recipient whose three independently published poetry collections, including “The Blues Cry For A Revolution,” became Amazon Kindle Best Sellers in African American Poetry. A Bookends Fellow Alum who was a finalist for the 2nd Westchester Poet Laureate, a Finalist for the 2021 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Award, and longlisted for the 2020 Dzanc Diverse Voice Prize. His fiction has appeared in several literary magazines.