About Jamie

Jamie Allen independently published his first novel, The Dashing Diner, in November 2024. His long-form journalism, essays, short stories, poems, and humor pieces have appeared in outlets including McSweeney's, The Paris Review’s “The Daily,” The Oxford American, The Missouri Review, Grantland, Garden & Gun, Atlanta Magazine, New South, and many others. 

Jamie is also the creator and writer behind the Squirrel Census, a design, science, conceptual art, and storytelling project. Started in Atlanta in 2012, the five-person Squirrel Census team led the first-ever complete count of Eastern gray squirrels in New York City’s Central Park in 2018. The results were published in the Central Park Squirrel Census 2019 Report, and the Census was featured in The New York Times, 99% Invisible, NPR, and many other outlets.