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My name is Allen Young. I'm a writer based in Sacramento.
I’ve spent the last decade covering business and politics in California. I publish stories in print, radio and video.
I applied for my first newspaper job at age 10. As a journalist, I'm fearless. As a person, I'm funny and awkward. My lips are always a little chapped. Yeah, haven’t figured that one out yet.
My work has appeared in Comstock's Magazine, The Daily Beast, Sacramento Bee, KQED News, and The Washington Post.

Depression? Demons? That sounds scary. Not Tim, right? He’s too smiley, and his paintings are too happy; it’s all pink sunsets, flourishing trees, happy dogs and vivid seas. Certainly not the work of someone possessed by demons...Well maybe not demons, but … better let Collom explain it.