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Sandy Ernest Allen is a freelance journalist, essayist, author and speaker. His work tends to focus on gender and on mental health from a human rights perspective. Sandy has contributed to many publications, including Eater, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, The Believer, The Cut, Them, 99% Invisible and This American Life, amongst others. Sandy and his work have been praised by likes of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, O Magazine and The New Republic. His debut book was a formally and thematically radical work of nonfiction called A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story about Schizophrenia (Scribner). AKOMP was beloved by many critics, a wide range of fans, and was long-listed as a top work of journalism the decade in 2020 by NYU’s journalism school. Sandy’s received a MacDowell Fellowship, amongst other honors.

Sandy holds two degrees in nonfiction writing (Brown undergrad, then an MFA ‘12 from the University of Iowa). As he likes to joke, he then got his NYC as well at BuzzFeed News (RIP), where he was Deputy Features editor (2013-2015). These days, he lives happily in the rural Catskills Mountains. He’s often found … singing at his piano or out in his garden. You’re encouraged to subscribe to his mental health-focused newsletter, What’s Helping Today. You can also follow him on Bluesky.