Isabel Waidner

1974–

Isabel Waidner is a German-born writer and academic who grew up in Germany and moved to London in 1995. After years in minimum-wage jobs, they took a PhD at the University of Roehampton on experimental fiction and queer avant-garde poetics, and now teach in the School of the Arts at Queen Mary University of London. Their debut novel, Gaudy Bauble, appeared in 2017; Sterling Karat Gold won the Goldsmiths Prize, making them the first non-binary winner. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. They co-founded the Queers Read This event series at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

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