Isle McElroy

Isle McElroy is the author of The Atmospherians and People Collide, named a best book of 2023 by Vulture, NPR, Them, and the New York Times Critics. Their essays appear in the New York Times, The Cut, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. In 2021 they founded Debuts & Redos, a socially-distanced, in-person reading series for writers who debuted during lockdown and could not hold in-person readings. They have a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston and they currently teach in the MFA Program at Sarah Lawrence College.