Isabella Collins is an American novelist and former travel photographer based in Portland, Maine. Born in 1988 in Asheville, North Carolina, she studied comparative literature at the University of North Carolina and spent her twenties documenting coastal communities from Nova Scotia to the Algarve. Her fiction blends sensory detail with place-centered love stories; her debut won a regional readers' prize in 2020, followed by two bestselling paperbacks. When not writing, she volunteers with a lighthouse preservation society, tends a small balcony herb garden, and walks a rescue greyhound named Lumen.
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