Kendra Allen

Kendra Allen is a writer from Dallas, Texas, who studied for her MFA at the University of Alabama. Her debut essay collection, When You Learn the Alphabet, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2019 and won the 2018 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. She is also the author of the poetry collection The Collection Plate and the memoir Fruit Punch, both from Ecco in 2021.