Allison Glock

A magazine journalist for 22 years, Allison Glock’s work has appeared in: The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Food & Wine, Elle, O Magazine, Men’s Journal, GQ, The New Yorker, and many other publications.

She is presently a senior staff writer for ESPN and a contributing editor for the southern lifestyle magazine Garden & Gun.

Her work has appeared in Best American Sportswriting.

In 2004 she won a Whiting Award for non-fiction for her book, ”Beauty Before Comfort,” (Knopf) a memoir of her grandmother’s life in West Virginia and an intimate portrait of southern, small-town life.

Allison Glock Nominated for FOLIO award

Allison’s story “Unforgiven” from the September 2010 issue of ESPN magazine has been named as a finalist for FOLIO’s Eddie Award.

From the LA Times: Beauty Before Comfort is, “a vivid evocation of the imperiled natural beauty of this region of mines and potteries, the hardships of the Depression and the charms of small-town life as well as its shibboleths, petty snobberies and sheer boredom. Glock writes with enormous zest, and her book is a delight to read: funny, forceful, down-to-earth. Her humor comes straight out of the classic American vein, a blend of tall-tale hyperbole and ironic understatement.”
In addition to her magazine work, Glock has written for film and television.

She is currently finishing a book of poetry and developing a southern literary journal.

Allison Glock Personal Biography

Allison Glock was born in West Virginia and raised there until her family moved to north Florida, where she attended high school.

She went to college at Indiana University, then graduate school at Syracuse University, where she attended the magazine program at the S.I. Newhouse School.