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Allie Rowbottom is the author of AESTHETICA, published November 2022 by Soho Press and named a best book of 2022 by Glamour Magazine, NPR and Vanity Fair. Allie’s first book, the critically acclaimed 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.
Allie’s essays and short fiction can be found in Vanity Fair, Elle, The New York Tines , The London Times, Alta, Dazed, New York Tyrant, Forever Magazine and elsewhere. In 2024 her reported piece, "Are We All Technosexuals Now?," was the lead story for the 2024 New York Times Style Section Valentines Day feature. Her short story "He Dreams About the Bunny Ranch," published by Alta Journal, was a finalist for the 2023 National Magazine Award in fiction. She wrote the column, Beauty Mark, for Byline.
Allie holds a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the writer Jon Lindsey.
Agent—Erin Harris, eharris@foliolit.com
Publicity—Johnny Nguyen, jnguyen@sohopress.com
Film & TV–Ali Lefkowitz, ali@anonymouscontent.com
P U B L I C A T I O N S
FAre We All Technosexuals Now? The New York Times, February 2024
Fashion is Selling Girlhood , Elle Magazine, January 2024
Beauty Mark: A column, Byline, 2023-onward
Roller Skates, White Claw and a Broken Wrist, The New York Times, Spring 2023
Pamela Anderson’s Just a Girl, Bustle, Spring 2023
From One Angle I am Beautiful from Another I Am Wrong, The London Times, Spring 2023
Aesthetica: A Novel, published by Soho Press, Fall 2022
Cavewoman LLC, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2022
Last of the Long Hot Days, Joyland, September 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
The Makings of a Literary It Girl, Nylon Magazine , February 2024
Aesthetica on The New York TImes Paperback Row
Would You Risk Your Life to Return to Your Former Self? New York Times Book Review, 2022
Allie Rowbottom is No Botox Moralist, New York Magazine’s The Cut 2022
Love It Here, an Exclusive Excerpt from Aesthetica, Elle Magazine
AESTHETICA is a Dazzling Destabilizing Novel that Cathartically Confronts Influencer Culture, Glamour Magazine 2022
Allie Rowbottom’s AESTHETICA is much more than an Instagram novel, Vanity Fair, 2022
Allie Rowbottom’s AESTHETICA isn’t abouot Instagram, it’s about Survival , Nylon Magazine 2022
Allie Rowbottom and Tea Hacic-Vlahovic Strip Down to Sell Books, Interview Magazine, 2022
Perfectly Imperfect Newsletter, 2022
What Sort of Woman Would I Be? Review of Aesthetica by Phillipa Snow, Astra Magazine 2022
Plastic Surgery Meets Suspense in Allie Rowbottom’s AESTHETICA, KQED 2022
The Lady Doth Post Too Much, Bomb Magazine, 2022
AESTHETICA is a Modern Tale of a Timeless Desire to be Seen, Document Journal, 2022
AESTHETICA Exposes the Ugly Side of Instagram, AnOther Mag, 2022
Allie Rowbottom on her Body Modification Novel AESTHETICA, the Observer, 2022
Starred Review oof AESTHETICA, Publisher’s Weekly 2022
The Fine Line Between Liberation and Self Destruction, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2022
It’s A Lot of Work Being a Woman on Instagram, Electric Lit 2022
When I Write I Leave my Body a Little, the Millions, 2022
Review of AESTHETICA, Kirkus Reviews, 2022
Interview in Sex Magazine, 2022
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