Jeffery Renard Allen is the award-winning author of six books of fiction and poetry, including Fat Time and Other Stories and Song of the Shank. He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he is at work on the memoir Mother-Wit.
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Jeffery Renard Allen is the award-winning author of six books of fiction and poetry, including Fat Time and Other Stories and Song of the Shank. He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he is at work on the memoir Mother-Wit.
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