[12] Allen covered LGBTQ stories as a senior reporter for The Daily Beast and worked as a staff writer for Fusion TV's Sex + Life vertical.
[12] Allen has also written for LGBTQ media outlets including Them[15] and Logo TV's NewNowNext as a freelance writer.
[12] In 2018 Allen published Love & Estrogen with Amazon Original Stories, which is a biographical queer romantic comedy about meeting her wife at the Kinsey Institute.
[12] In 2019 she published the biography Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States, which won the Judy Turner Prize for Community Service at the Decatur Books Festival.
It follows the final four contestants on a reality dating show as they encounter a creature named Patricia in the woods on a remote island.