Preston Allen
... has been anthologized in Having a Wonderful Time: an
Anthology of South Florida Writers, and in Brown Sugar:
a Collection of Erotic Black Fiction. His novel, Hoochie
Mama, made it to #7 on the Mosaicbooks.com "Hot Books
for 2002" at the same time that Brown Sugar was #2
on the same list.
Preston is also the 1998 recipient of a State of Florida Individual
Artist Fellowship in Literature, a winner of the Books and Books
Poetry Prize, and a former host of the Butterfly Lightning reading
series at Tobacco Road.
His first collection of short stories, Curchboys and Other
Sinners, was awarded the Sonja H. Stone prize in ficton and
will be pubslihed next year by Carolina Wren Press.
He hopes one day to be the most successful Afro-Honduran-Amercan
writer who ever graduated from FIU with an MFA in creative writing.
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