Isabel Waidner is a writer and cultural theorist. She is the author of three books of innovative fiction, most recently Gaudy Bauble (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2017), which is currently longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for "hardcore literary fiction and gorgeous prose," sponsored by the Times Literary Supplement. Her articles and short fictions have appeared or are forthcoming in journals including 3: AM, Berfrois, Configurations, The Happy Hypocrite, The Quietus and Minor Literature[s]. As part of the indie band Klang, Waidner released records on UK labels Rough Trade (2003) and Blast First (2004). She is the editor of Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Writing (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018), and she is a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Roehampton University, London, UK. @isabelwaidne