the writer izabella scott, photographed by christa holka


Izabella Scott is a writer from London. She is the author of The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial (Atlantic; Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2026); and co-author of Pleasure Gardens (MACK, 2024), which was joint winner of the 2025 Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing.

 

She has been published by the London Review of Books, the Financial Times, Granta, The New Enquiry and others. She was formerly co-editor of The White Review.

 

 

 
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