Awards & Other Recognition

Top Work of Journalism of the Decade (longlist, for A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise) – NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute 2020

The Narratively Untold Story Award 2018

PEN Writing For Justice Fellowship semi-finalist 2018

UC Berkeley 11th Hour Food & Farming Fellowship 2017

MacDowell Fellowship 2017

Press

“Sandy Ernest Allen is a ‘drop everything’ byline for me and should be for you, too.” – Christine Grimaldi, The Flytrap, Best of 2024

I’m quoted in this article by Jude Doyle for Xtra on how trans people are facing despair.

I’m also quoted in this post, from Lindsey Adler’s Critical Thinking, on the power of cis anger.

My newsletter What’s Helping Today was recently featured on Today in Tabs.

My quarantine-era online bread-making classes were discussed in this article by Katie Okamoto from Taste.

My first book A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise received praise from The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, O Magazine, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, LA Review of Books, Library Journal (starred review), and The Psychiatric Times (the largest psychiatric magazine), amongst others. It was also named a most-anticipated or top work by: Esquire, Vogue, CBC, Bitch, The Week, The Rumpus. Visit this site for more about my first book.

My podcast Mad Chat was praised by Self, O Magazine, The AV Club and The New York Times. Visit this site for more about Mad Chat.

Podcasts & Radio

Selected podcast & radio appearances. Note those from pre-2021 feature my voice pre-Testosterone.

KERA’s Think

TED’s How to be a Better Human

Slate’s Dear Prudence

KCRW’s The Organist

See also my stories for This American Life (first, second) and 99% Invisible (first, second).