Samantha Leigh Allen Biography
Samantha Leigh Allen is a journalist and author from the United States. Allen was a senior correspondent for The Daily Beast before becoming Senior Culture Editor at Them.
Samantha Leigh Allen Age
Allen was born and raised in the United States of America.
Samantha Leigh Allen Education
She transferred from Brigham Young University to Rutgers University. She holds a Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University, as well as a degree in Psychoanalytic Studies. In 2013 she received the John Money Fellowship for Scholars of Sexology from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University Bloomington.
Samantha Leigh Allen Family
Allen was born in California and grew up in New Jersey. She was raised in a conservative, Mormon household.
Samantha Leigh Allen Career
Allen served as a staff writer for Fusion TV’s Sex + Life vertical and as a senior correspondent for The Daily Beast. She later worked for Them as a Senior Culture Editor. She has written for publications such as The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Out, CNN, and Crosscut.com. Allen has also worked as a freelance writer for LGBTQ media sources such as Them and Logo TV’s NewNowNext. She also co-hosts the WNBA podcast Double W with Laurel Powell and produces a travel column called Get Lost on Substack. For her essay on the cultural erasure of bisexual males, she got the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism essay in 2018. Her work on non-binary people was nominated for a GLAAD Award in 2019.
Allen published Love & Estrogen, a biographical gay romantic comedy about meeting her wife at the Kinsey Institute, with Amazon Original Stories in 2018. She won the Judy Turner Prize for Community Service at the Decatur Books Festival in 2019 for her biography Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States. book is on LGBTQ people in Utah, Texas, Indiana, Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi. Patricia Wants to Cuddle, Allen’s debut fiction novel, was released by Zando on June 28, 2022. It follows the last four hopefuls on a reality dating show as they meet Patricia in the woods on a lonely island.
Samantha Leigh Allen Net Worth
Leigh has an estimated net worth of 100 thousand dollars.