Isabel Waidner is a writer and critical theorist. Their novels We Are Made of Diamond Stuff (2019) and Gaudy Bauble (2017) were shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize (2x), and won the Internationale Literaturpreis. Waidner is a co-founder of the event series Queers Read This at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, and the programmer and presenter of This isn't a Dream, a literary talk show, hosted by the ICA via Instagram live. They are the editor of Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Writing (2018), and their next novel Sterling Karat Gold is forthcoming with Peninsula Press in June 2021.
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