Allan Reeder
Head of Studio Publications, Prose

Allan Reeder, Head of Studio Publications, is a graduate of Phillips Andover Academy and holds a B.A. in English from Middlebury College. He spent a decade working as a professional literary editor before arriving at Walnut Hill in 2002.

In the mid-nineties, following work at The New England Review, he assisted John Irving with three complete revisions of the 1,000-page manuscript for Irving’s eighth novel, A Son of the Circus, and with revisions to the original screenplays for A Son of the Circus and the Oscar-winning The Cider House Rules. He then moved to The Atlantic Monthly, where, in addition to contributing author interviews and nonfiction pieces to the magazine and its website, he scrutinized the prose of a wide array of fiction writers, including John Updike, John Barth, Louise Erdrich, Francine Prose, Annie Proulx, and Edna O’Brien.  Following his tenure at The Atlantic, Allan was the executive editor of fiction for DoubleTake magazine, where he revamped the editorial systems as he searched for new voices to publish.

Allan has also taken an M.A. at the renowned Bread Loaf School of English, where, working with actors from the Trinity Repertory Theater, of Providence, Rhode Island, he expanded the scope of his literary endeavors to include playwriting and directing. He has published book reviews and travel essays, and for his fiction has been nominated as a Ploughshares “Emerging Writer”; has twice been awarded an Artist Grant in Fiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (2006, 2010); and has received a Full Fellowship in Fiction from the Vermont Studio Center.

In 2007 he was awarded the E.E. Ford Prize for Exceptional Merit by his peers at Walnut Hill.