About Jamie

Jamie Allen published his first novel, The Dashing Diner, in November 2024. That same year, he served as Senior Writer & Show Supervisor for the Pocket FM fantasy-drama Norse Code, the top-performing original new show on the platform. His comedy script, Double Ds, was a semifinalist in the 2024 Austin Film Festival’s screenwriting contest.

Jamie is also the creator and writer behind the Squirrel Census, a design, science, conceptual art, and storytelling project featured in The New York Times, 99% Invisible, NPR, and many other outlets.

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.