Samantha Leigh Allen

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Samantha Leigh Allen is an American journalist and author. Allen worked as a senior reporter for The Daily Beast and now works as Senior Culture Editor at Them. In 2019 she published the nonfiction book Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States .

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Early life and education

Allen was born in California and grew up in New Jersey. [1] She was raised in a conservative, Mormon household. [2] [3] As a young adult she served as a Mormon missionary. [4] She officially left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2008 and transferred from Brigham Young University to Rutgers University later that year. [2] [5] She came out as a transgender woman in 2012. [6] [7]

She has a Ph.D. in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a certificate in Psychoanalytic Studies from Emory University. [8] [9] She was a recipient of a George W. Woodruff Fellowship while at Emory. [10] In 2013 she received the John Money Fellowship for Scholars of Sexology from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University Bloomington. [11] In 2014 she was a recipient of the Unsung Heroine Award from the Center for Women at Emory as well as a Transgender Advocate of the Year Award from Emory's Office of LGBT Life. [12]

Career

Allen covered LGBTQ stories as a senior reporter for The Daily Beast and worked as a staff writer for Fusion TV's Sex + Life vertical. [11] [13] She later became a Senior Culture Editor at Them. [14] She has written for The New York Times , Rolling Stone , Out , CNN, and Crosscut.com . [12] Allen has also written for LGBTQ media outlets including Them and Logo TV's NewNowNext as a freelance writer. [15] [16] She also writes a travel newsletter called Get Lost on Substack and co-hosts a podcast about the WNBA called Double W with Laurel Powell. [15]

In 2018 she received the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism Article for her article on the cultural erasure of bisexual men. In 2019 she was nominated for a GLAAD Award her piece on non-binary inclusion in the workplace. [12] In 2018 Allen published Love & Estrogen with Amazon Original Stories, which is a biographical queer romantic comedy about meeting her wife at the Kinsey Institute. [12]

In 2019 she published the biography Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States , which won the Judy Turner Prize for Community Service at the Decatur Books Festival. [12] [17] Her book focuses on LGBTQ communities in Utah, Texas, Indiana, Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi. [15] [18] [19] [20]

Allen's first fiction novel, Patricia Wants to Cuddle, was published June 28, 2022 by Zando. It follows the final four contestants on a reality dating show as they encounter a creature named Patricia in the woods on a remote island. [21] [22]

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