{"id":352,"date":"2022-09-28T12:58:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=352"},"modified":"2022-09-28T14:37:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:37:07","slug":"kendra-allen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2019\/kendra-allen-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendra Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"269\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/kallen_lg-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kendra Allen\" class=\"wp-image-326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/kallen_lg-1.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/kallen_lg-1-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>author of&nbsp;<em>When You Learn the Alphabet<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, October 11, 9:40 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kendra Allen was awarded the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction for her debut collection of lyric essays <em>When You Learn the Alphabe<\/em>t by Kiese Laymon, who noted Allen \u201cbrilliantly animates the formal and informal education processes of becoming grown in America.\u201d Allen was raised in Dallas and is currently completing her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uipress.uiowa.edu\/books\/9781609386290\/when-you-learn-the-alphabet-0\">University of Iowa Press book page<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/therumpus.net\/2019\/05\/the-rumpus-interview-with-kendra-allen\/\">Interview at The Rumpus<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/alphabet_lg.jpg\" alt=\"when you learn the alphabet cover\" class=\"wp-image-359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/alphabet_lg.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/alphabet_lg-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of When You Learn the Alphabet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}