Isabella Davis grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana, and studied theater design at Tulane University before making a home in New Orleans. She has worked as a stage manager, lighting technician, and part-time tango instructor—careers that inform her city-centered love stories set along the Gulf Coast, where rehearsal rooms, streetcars, and storm-lit levees become stages for intimacy and reinvention.
Her essays on performance culture and urban memory have appeared in Gulf South Review and Pelican Quarterly, and she has received grants from local arts councils for community arts programming. In her romance fiction, including Dark Dance, Davis explores how architecture, music, and public space shape the way people meet, grieve, and risk tenderness. She lives in New Orleans with a shaggy rescue dog and still takes early-morning walks on the levee after storms, sketchbook in hand.
