​Jessica Allen writes books about axolotls, numbers, astrology, poetry, and other interesting things. She's even written a book about books.

Her articles, reviews, and essays have been published in many places, including The Boston Globe, Business Insider, CBS, The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, The Independent, McSweeney's, Mental Floss, Observer, The Onion's A.V. Club, Paste, Publishers Weekly, Roads & Kingdoms, Salon, The Smart Set, Thrillist, The Toast, The Washington Post, and Writer's Digest.​

A few fun facts: she can eat her weight in jelly beans, has been to every US state except Kansas, and once spent the day walking the perimeter of Manhattan, some 37 miles.