Isabel Strychacz

Isabel Strychacz grew up in a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she read all the books she could find and wrote the books she couldn’t.

She earned two degrees in English/Creative Writing and History from Mills College in California, and won the college’s award for top fiction prose in 2016. She’s currently in her final year of a MFA degree in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University.

Isabel lives in the heart of England with her husband and daughter, where she works as a copywriter for a global marketing agency.

Isabel’s debut novel Starling came out in 2021 with Simon & Schuster, followed by House of Thorns in 2024, which was named as an Amazon Editor’s Pick Best Book of August. Her upcoming novel Thirteen Midnights comes out in 2026.

You can find her at isabelstrychacz.com or on Instagram at @isabelstrychaczauthor.