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Allie Rowbottom's critically acclaimed debut memoir, Jell-O Girls (Little Brown and Company) was a 2018 NYT Editor’s Choice Selection, Amazon Best Book of the Month, Indie Next Pick, and Real Simple Best Book of the year. Her debut novel, Aesthetica, is forthcoming from Soho Press in November of 2022.
Allie’s essays and short fiction can be found in Vanity Fair, Salon, Lit Hub, No Tokens, NY Tyrant, The Drunken Canal, Alta Journal, Bitch and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and has taught fiction and non-fiction at the University of Houston, CalArts, and Catapult.
She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the writer Jon Lindsey.
Agent—Erin Harris eharris@foliolit.com
P.R.—Alexa Wejko awejko@sohopress.com
P U B L I C A T I O N S
Aesthetica: A Novel, forthcoming from Soho Press, Fall 2022
He Dreams About the Bunny Ranch, Alta Journal, January 2022
Even Before Success Pussy was Number One, Forever Magazine, November 2021
Interview: Palm Springs Eternal: Allie Rowbottom Interviews Jon Lindsey, Hobart, June 2021
Roundtable: Coat Full of Pockets: A Story Collection Roundtable, The Rumpus, June 2021
For the Roses, Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond (Anthology), Harper Collins, August 2021
Three Poems, New York Tyrant, February 2021
Interview: No Conversation@DudesInTheDMs Is Making the Internet Safer for Women, Bitch Magazine, February 2021
Aura-Lift ™, Hobart, October 2020
Two Against One, Post Road, October 2020
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S E L E C T P R E S S
Selected Prose Podcast, 2022
Allie Rowbottom on Social Media, Plastic Surgery and Being Objectified, Polyester Zine, 2021
Currents: An Interview Series with Brian Alan Ellis, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, 2021
1StoryPodcast, November 2020
The Creative Non-Fiction Podcast, The Page As a Safe Place, July 2019
In Jell-O Girls, a Dark Family History Behind a Candy Colored Dessert, The New York Times, 2018
How Patriarchy Imprinted Itself on the Family Who Created Jell-O, The New York Times Book Review, 2018