Wild and Tame

Nancy Jo Allen was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota and moved to Wisconsin, where she spent thirty-four years owning and operating a few businesses of her own before closing one to work with her husband in another business as vice-president, production manager, and department head. In Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Allen earned a baccalaureate majoring in English Literature with a double minor in Creative Writing and Theatre. She was inducted as a member of Sigma Gamma Zeta II honor society in her undergraduate years. Allen divorced in 2005 and was accepted to a graduate program through Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts of Writing degree with the emphasis on playwriting. She was a student editor for The Louisville Review and won first place in a Metroversity short fiction contest while attending the graduate program. Allen’s graduate creative thesis was read by both the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville and by the August Wilson and the Pla