Allen Wier has published four novels: Tehano (Southern Methodist University Press, 2006), A Place for Outlaws (Harper & Row, 1989), Departing as Air (Simon & Schuster, 1983), and Blanco (LSU Press 1978, Avon/Bard 1980 and Harper & Row 1989) and a collection of stories, Things About to Disappear (LSU Press 1978 and Avon/Bard 1980). He's edited an anthology, Walking on Water and Other Stories (Univ. of Alabama Press 1996), and co-edited Voicelust, a collection of essays on style in contemporary fiction¹ (Univ. of Nebraska Press 1985).

In 1997 he received the Robert Penn Warren Award,
conferred by the Fellowship of Southern Writers biennially to "recognize an outstanding young Southern writer of fiction." Wier is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship from the University of Texas and the Texas Institute of Letters.