Allegra Hyde

Biography

Allegra Hyde is the author of Of This New World, which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award through the Iowa Short Fiction Award Series. Her stories and essays have been published in Tin House, American Short Fiction, Kenyon Review, New England Review, the Threepenny Review, the Missouri Review, and the Gettysburg Review, among other publications. Her writing has been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing, Best Women’s Travel Writing, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions.

She has been awarded three Pushcart Prizes.

Hyde’s honors also include grants and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Lucas Artist Residency Program, the Jentel Foundation, Writing Workshops in Greece, the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and the Island School.

Before coming to Oberlin, Hyde taught at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, the University of Houston, the National University of Singapore, and Arizona State University. She also served two seasons with the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program.