Kerri Allen is an award-winning writer and editor with more than 20 years of experience in travel, arts and cultural journalism. From her first assignment to cover the Tohono O'odham nation’s pow-wow in southern Arizona to eating the tongue-numbing jambú plant from the Brazilian Amazon, Kerri's insatiable curiosity about people, culture, food, performance and human connection has been her driving journalistic force.

Trained as a fellow with The New York Times Institute for Journalism, Kerri has written for The Times, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, HuffPost, Fodor's Travel, Budget Travel, Time Out New York, and many others. Since 2022, she has been a contributing editor at Fathom, an independently owned travel platform that “celebrates all the reasons we pack our bags, get on a plane, hitch a ride, and explore beyond our backyards.” In 2023, she served as managing editor for Further, a monthly digital magazine about “culture, food, style, design, art, wellness, adventure, and the pure, unbridled joy of travel.” As a guest on the popular Break Into Travel Writing podcast, Kerri shared hard-won advice with aspiring writers.

Fluent in Spanish, Kerri served as associate editor for Estreno Plays, a non-profit literary press that publishes stage-worthy English translations of the best and most current plays from Spain. As a theater critic, she spent four years as the U.S. delegate to the International Association of Theatre Critics/Association international des critiques de théâtre, a bilingual NGO and arm of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). This position led Kerri across Asia, Scandinavia, Eastern and Western Europe, and North America to speak at conferences and reunite semi-annually with writing colleagues from across the world. Much of her work from this time has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Korean and Greek.

Kerri was an early member of Paragraph, a writers’ workplace in New York City that galvanized a passionate community of novelists, short story writers, journalists, editors, technical writers, memoirists, screenwriters, playwrights, and writers of all manner of mediums and genres.

Today, Kerri is an active member of various digital writers’ communities, including The Travel Writing Skool, founded by former CNN Travel producer and editor James Durston, and The Inkwell, which focuses on discuss the business and finances of the writing life.

Kerri holds a master's degree from Georgetown University in global strategic communications, a program that included residencies in Singapore, London, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. She graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers University with a B.A. in Spanish and studied at Universidad Internacional in Cuernavaca, México. She lives in New York City with her photographer-husband and their achingly adorable red dog.