Isabelle Appleton received a BA in Religion with a concentration in Studio Art from Vassar College. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded the J. Howard Howson Prize for Excellence in the Study of Religion. In 2025, she received her MFA in Fiction from NYU, where she was awarded the Alpine Fellowship, the Goldwater Fellowship, and the Thesis Research Award for her thesis, “The World.” Her work can be found in publications including The Paris Review, Joyland Magazine, Conjunctions, The New England Review, and more. Originally from the city of St. Louis, Isabelle has spent the past seven years in New York City, working at institutions including The Princeton Review, William Morris Endeavor, e-flux, and The Institute for Christian Socialism. She has taught introductory creative writing at NYU and was a Fall 2025 fellow at the Ucross Foundation. She’s interested in contemporary literary representations of Greece in the work of authors including Jeffrey Eugenides, Lawrence Durrell, Don DeLillo, and Rachel Cusk.