Isabel Waidner

Isabel Waidner (born 14 February 1974) is a German-British writer and cultural theorist based in London, England. They have written four novels: ''Corey Fah Does Social Mobility'' (2023, Hamish Hamilton), ''Sterling Karat Gold'' (2021, Peninsula Press), ''We are Made of Diamond Stuff'' (2019, Dostoyevsky Wannabe), and ''Gaudy Bauble'' (2017, Dostoyevsky Wannabe). ''We are Made of Diamond Stuff'' was nominated for the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize and ''Sterling Karat Gold'' won the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize. They are also the editor of the anthology ''Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Literature'' (2018, Dostoyevsky Wannabe) and have written for numerous publications including ''Granta'', ''Frieze'', the ''Cambridge Literary Review'', and ''AQNB''.

Along with artist Richard Porter, Waidner is the co-founder of the Queers Read This, an event series hosted by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA). They were the host and curator of the ICA's literary talk series, This Isn't a Dream, which was live-streamed fortnightly via Instagram Live between January and May 2021. Provided by Wikipedia