About
Izabella Scott is a writer, editor and researcher from London.
Her book of nonfiction, The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial, is forthcoming from Atlantic Books in February 2026, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux (North America) in Fall 2026.
Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir (MACK, 2024), co-written with Skye Arundhati Thomas, won the 2025 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing.
She was formerly coeditor of The White Review.
Her writing has appeared in ArtReview, the Financial Times, the London Review of Books, The New Inquiry, Granta, TANK magazine, frieze, Art Monthly, e-flux, The White Review, RA Magazine and others.
She has chaired talks at Tate Britain, the Barbican, the British Library, the ICA, the Whitechapel, Camden Art Centre, Market Gallery, Frieze Art Fair.
She is Co-Editor of The White Review Writing in Translation Anthology (2024). She guest co-edited Mousse 90: The Fiction Issue (2025).
She was awarded a 2024 Silvers Grant for Work in Progress, and a 2024 Authors’ Foundation grant for Work in Progress. She won the 2022 MACK Annual Research Fellowship. She completed a PhD at Queen Mary University of London funded by LAHP. She ran Slack Pussy reading group at MayDay Rooms from 2017–2021.
She was Co-Editor-in-Chief of The White Review from 2021–2023, and Co-Art Editor of The White Review from 2017–2021. She previously worked as an Editor for the publisher MACK. She studied at Trinity College Dublin (BA) and Royal College of Art, London (MA). She is represented by Harriet Moore at Aitken Alexander Associates.
Press Photograph
A 5307 x 7957px @ 300dpi version of Izabella's portrait is available here.
Please credit Christa Holka.