About Jamie

Jamie Allen is a writer, humorist, and the creator of the Squirrel Census. a multimedia science and storytelling project, the squirrel census recently performed the first-ever complete count of squirrels in New York City’s Central Park. The project was featured in/on The New York Times, The Washington Post, Gothamist, Atlas Obscura, Popular Science, Now This News, NPR, Good Morning America, and other outlets. Jamie has published essays, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, and humor in The Oxford American, McSweeney's, The Missouri Review, Grantland, Atlanta Magazine, How Stuff Works, and other outlets.