Allison Lynn is the recipient of two literary awards for Now You See It: The William Faulkner Medal for Best Novel-in-Progress, awarded by the William Faulkner Society, and The Chapter One Award, awarded by The Bronx Writers' Center.

Lynn graduated from Dartmouth College in 1991 and received her MFA in fiction from NYU. She has worked at Harper's Bazaar and People where she was a writer and reporter. She is a freelance writer for In Style, The New York Times Book Review, and Redbook. Last year she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Lehigh University.