Isabella Chapman was born in 1986 in Exeter, England, and grew up between Devon and Montreal. She studied comparative literature at McGill University and earned an M.A. in contemporary letters from Sorbonne Nouvelle. After a stint as a copy editor in London and a translator's assistant in Paris, she began writing fiction that lingers on art, found families, and the stubborn geographies of love. Her short work has appeared in small Canadian and UK journals, and she has taught creative writing workshops in Aix-en-Provence. She lives in Marseille with her partner, a photographer, and a rescue mutt named Fig. When she isn't writing, she can be found haunting flea markets for old cameras and speaking franglais with embarrassing enthusiasm.
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