Born and raised in New York City,

Isabelle spent years living and working in Berlin before heading back to her hometown to get her MFA at Columbia University.

Fluent in English and German, she has worked as a freelance translator for books and television, and has moderated bilingual literary events in conjunction with The Austrian Cultural Forum, Goethe Institut, and Deutsches Haus at NYU, among others.

Her writing is inspired by family themes, generational trauma, cross-cultural influences, and reality of those affected by addiction issues and mental illness. She is currently at work on a novel.

Isabelle holds a B.A. in Writing and Literature from Johns Hopkins University, where she minored in German Studies, and has studied at Oxford University and Freie Universität Berlin. She has previously attended writing workshops at Kenyon College, Brown University, and Yale University, and was a 2023 contributor at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Follow her on Instagram at @thenovelistknits