Allan Wolf

Allan Wolf (he/him) is a writer of picture books, poetry collections, and young adult verse novels celebrating his love of research, history, science, and poetry. He is a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, a two-time winner of the North Carolina Young Adult Book Award, and a recipient of New York’s Bank Street College Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry. Booklist placed Wolf’s The Watch That Ends the Night (Candlewick Press, 2011) on its list of the 50 Best YA Books of All Time. 

Wolf believes in the healing powers of poetry recitation and has committed many poems to memory. He coined the term “Narrative Pointillism” to describe his use of multiple narrators and points-of-view in his verse novels.

Wolf was a formative member of the educational theater troupe Poetry Alive! and went on to found and produce poetry slams, workshops, and festivals, including the Southern Fried Poetry Slam, an annual showcase of spoken-word talent from across the southeast that has lasted more than 30 years.

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