Join us for a conversation and book signing with Nancy J. Allen, hosted by the Dallas Literary Society. Nancy will be discussing her new collection, A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes. You can register for the event through the Dallas Literary Society.

In Nancy J. Allen’s fierce first collection, A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes, the extraordinary emerges from the everyday. Allen’s stories are informed by the vast landscapes of New Mexico and Texas, and in them the mythic and the mundane intertwine: two neighbors burn a grandson’s letters from Vietnam in a backyard grill; a child vanishes into the maze of Albuquerque’s fabled Alvarado Hotel; a sculptor meets her younger self in the eerie stillness of a theater lobby. These are only a few of the unforgettable, mysterious moments that mark the arrival of a bold new voice in contemporary Southwest fiction.

Nancy J. Allen grew up in New Mexico and moved to Texas when she was thirteen. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers. Her fiction has won awards in journals such as 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.