Originally from Roswell, New Mexico, Nancy J. Allen is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers. Her fiction has won awards in journals including Southwest Review, StoryQuarterly, bosque, and Short Story America. A research fellow of the School of Spiritual Psychology in Santa Fe, she lives with her husband in Dallas and Taos.

“Nancy Allen is a gorgeous writer, deft with the use of telling and power-packed poetic verbs and wise in her ability to see deep into the soul of a character and know how a single event can change them.” - Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, author of Ark“Packed with raw emotional power, A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes is intelligent, at times heart-pumping, and always courageous.” - Lesley Bannatyne, author of Unaccustomed to Grace

Originally from Roswell, New Mexico, Nancy J. Allen is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers. Her fiction has won awards in journals including Southwest Review, StoryQuarterly, bosque, and Short Story America. A research fellow of the School of Spiritual Psychology in Santa Fe, she lives with her husband in Dallas and Taos.

“Nancy Allen is a gorgeous writer, deft with the use of telling and power-packed poetic verbs and wise in her ability to see deep into the soul of a character and know how a single event can change them.” - Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, author of Ark“Packed with raw emotional power, A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes is intelligent, at times heart-pumping, and always courageous.” - Lesley Bannatyne, author of Unaccustomed to Grace

Originally from Roswell, New Mexico, Nancy J. Allen is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers. Her fiction has won awards in journals including Southwest Review, StoryQuarterly, bosque, and Short Story America. A research fellow of the School of Spiritual Psychology in Santa Fe, she lives with her husband in Dallas and Taos.

“Nancy Allen is a gorgeous writer, deft with the use of telling and power-packed poetic verbs and wise in her ability to see deep into the soul of a character and know how a single event can change them.” - Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, author of Ark“Packed with raw emotional power, A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes is intelligent, at times heart-pumping, and always courageous.” - Lesley Bannatyne, author of Unaccustomed to Grace