Allegra Hyde

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Allegra Hyde is the author of the novel ELEUTHERIA, as well as the short story collection, OF THIS NEW WORLD, which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award through the Iowa Short Fiction Award Series.

A recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, Hyde's writing has also been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing, Best Women’s Travel Writing, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions. Her stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Threepenny Review, and many other venues. Hyde has received fellowships and grants from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, The Elizabeth George Foundation, the Lucas Artist Residency Program, the Jentel Foundation, The Virginia G. Piper Center, Writing Workshops in Greece, the National University of Singapore, the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and elsewhere.

She currently teaches at Oberlin College.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2015*

Pushcart (Fiction) 2016

Pushcart (Fiction) 2018

Pushcart (CNF) 2019

* indicates notable/special mention

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