Allegra Huston is a writer of screenplays, journalism, and creative nonfiction. Her screenwriting credits include NBC television, Walt Disney Pictures and Icon Entertainment. Her articles have appeared in British newspapers including the Independent on Sunday and The Times, as well as in magazines including the Tatler, French Vogue, the Santa Fean, Mothering, and Harper's Bazaar UK.

Allegra is the youngest daughter of film director John Huston and sister of Oscar-winning actress Anjelica Huston. After gaining a First Class degree in English at Oxford University, she became a book publisher in London from1990-94. She has worked with Edna O'Brien, Alan Hollinghurst, Jane Goodall, Robert Conquest, Barbara Leaming, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.

In 1994, Allegra joined the London-based subsidiary of the French film giant Pathé, where she spent over two years as a consultant for acquisition and development before giving up full-time employment to pursue a screenwriting career. She is represented by the William Morris Agency in Los Angeles and the Curtis Brown agency in London.

Allegra has travelled widely in countries such as Cambodia, India, Sri Lanka, China, Mongolia, north Africa, Turkey, Jordan, Cuba, Australia, Indonesia, Mexico, and all over Europe. She now lives in Taos, New Mexico, where (with) her partner, Cisco Guevara, is a sought-after storyteller and owner of Los Rios River Runners, New Mexico’s oldest whitewater rafting company. They have a four-year-old son, Rafael.