Fiction Writer & Poet

Isabel is a full-time professional author and has published works in both English and Spanish. She writes fiction and dialogue-driven fiction, as well as poetry and ekphrastic text. Her preferred genres are speculative, fantasy, sci-fi, noir, dystopia, and specifically the plight of women. She is fascinated by experimental writing, and she fluctuates between literary fiction and genre fiction. Her books include 'La duda', shortlisted for two literary awards in Spain, and the bilingual 'Zero Negative–Cero negativo'. Her recent collections of short stories are 'Paradise & Hell' and 'Una muerte incidental', and her recent poetry books are 'Madrid, Madrid, Madrid', 'Punto de fuga' and 'Dolorem Ipsum', dedicated to the victims of the 2020 pandemic. Her novels include the fantasy narrative 'El tiempo que falta' and the sci-fi trilogy 'Planet in Peril', with 'Dissent' as the first of the three in the series. Her latest books are her autobiography, written in English with excerpts in Spanish, 'A Woman Alone: fragments of a memoir'; her poetry collection in Spanish with sections in English, 'Cuaderno de notas'; and  'La autora del fin del mundo', an anthology of the short stories she has published over the last three decades. Her latest novel 'Still Life' is the literary artefact of her PhD.