Allison C. Meier is an Oklahoma-born, Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and researcher focused on visual culture, architecture, and overlooked history: I believe in writing about the arts and heritage of our world in an accessible, engaging way.

I am the author of Grave (2023, Bloomsbury) in the Object Lessons book series and the editor of the Modernist New York (2025), Great Trees of New York (2021), Art Deco New York (2018), and Concrete New York (2017) maps from Blue Crow Media.

Currently I am the editor of Fine Books & Collections magazine. Previously, I was a research associate with the American Folk Art Museum, writing new biographies for its collection of work by self-taught, folk, and outsider artists.

I have served as a staff writer at Hyperallergic and the senior editor at Atlas Obscura. My bylines include the New York Times, Hyperallergic, Atlas Obscura, CityLab, Curbed, National Geographic, the Art Newspaper, the Public Domain Review, Wellcome Collection, the New Inquiry, Lapham’s Quarterly, Smithsonian, Mental Floss, Slate, ArtDesk, Raw Vision Magazine, Reasons to Be Cheerful, JSTOR Daily, Urban Omnibus, Chicago Magazine, the Offing, ARTNews,Narratively, Nineteenth Century magazine, Collectors Weekly, Prattfolio, American Cemetery & Cremation Magazine, Bunk History, AFAR, Dilettante Army, Glasstire, Artsy, Nightingale, 1stDibs, Death in the Afternoon Podcast,Fine Books Magazine, Brooklyn Based, 20×200, GOOD, the Order of the Good Death, and theOklahoma Gazette.

As a researcher, I have contributed to projects like A&E Biography Channel’s Bio Shorts series, turning up intriguing facts and stories about famous and overlooked figures from pop culture and history, and the Iconic Designs series on 1stDibs, exploring what makes a piece of furniture, jewelry, or decor more than just an object. I regularly edit and copyedit for media publications, luxury design, and gallery and museum content.

I moonlight as a cemetery tour guide at New York burial grounds and I am a licensed New York City sightseeing guide. I’m on a mission to see all the city’s Greatest Trees. I am forecasting the weekly NYC Microseasons in a regular newsletter. I always make time for zines.

A woman in a black dress picked up a lantern. “Welcome to Green-Wood Cemetery,” she said. “My name is Allison Meier.”
The New Yorker (2014)