A graduate of Columbia University and a resident of New York, Allison is a freelance writer and editor. She has written about money for publications like Bloomberg, Forbes, The Today Show, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, TheStreet, Credit.com, Fox Business News and The Fiscal Times. In addition, her work has appeared in lifestyle publications like Real Simple, Travel + Leisure, Lifehacker, xoJane and BoingBoing.
Allison is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated fiction writer. Her short stories have appeared in The Huffington Post and literary magazines such as Joyland Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, Annalemma, Fractured West, Full of Crow, Underground Voices and 322 Review.