A Tennessee Williams Fellow in Fiction and a Yaddo Fellow, Roberta Allen has nine published books, including three collections of very short and short fiction, a novel, a novella in flash fictions and a memoir. Her latest collection is The Princess of Herself. Over 200 stories have appeared in journals, including Conjunctions and Epoch, New World Writing and the Evergreen Review. Also a conceptual artist, very active in internationally in the 1970s-early 80s, her drawings, collages, prints and photographs have been acquired by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Her writing papers have been acquired by the Fales Archive of NYU.