Mary Allen
Mary Allen, the author of The Rooms of Heaven, is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship and a Paul Engle-James Michener Fellowship. She has published short work in Poets and Writers, Tiferet, Real Simple, Library Journal, The Chaos, CNN Online, and in the anthology If I Don’t Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught in the University of Iowa’s nonfiction writing MFA program, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and the Rhetoric Department at the University of Iowa.