Isadora Petrovsky

Isadora H. Petrovsky (she/her) is a writer of and about speculative fiction because gothic monsters and secondary worlds feel, to her, the most queer. Recently, she presented her non-fiction paper "Speculative Fiction as Postcolonial Critique: R.F. Kuang’s Babel and the Non-Ethics of War" at the Eaton Symposium on Speculative Fiction and wrote/illustrated a sapphic Orpheus and Eurydice Zine called "Turn & Run" with Bitter Pill Press. Isadora is in her third and final year of her MFA at UC San Diego and when she's not writing she teaches it. 

• MFA, Writing, UC San Diego (June 2025)

• BA, English, Long Island University (May 2022)

• Teaching Assistant, Literature Department (2023-present)
• Teaching Assistant, Elenor Roosevelt College (2022-2023)
• Co-Creator, Co-Host, Graphic Designer, The Written World Podcast (2021-present)
• Copywriter, Dr. Rissy’s Writing and Marketing (2022-2023)
• Writing Center Tutor, Long Island University, (2020-2022)
• Executive Editor, Founder, Website Designer, Long Island University Research Journal (2021-2022)
• Manuscript Editor and Beta Reader, Freelance Editor (2020-2022)
• Executive Editor, Contributor, Illustrator, The Bottom Line Magazine (2019-2022)
• Editor, Social Media Manager, Loomings Literary Journal (2020-2021)
• Formatting Intern, Dreaming Big Publications (2020)

• “I am Struck Dead at the Clasp of Her Hand” reprinted in KALEIDOSCOPED
• “I am Struck Dead at the Clasp of Her Hand” in Indecent Magazine
• “Red” in Gingerbread House Lit Mag, Awarded L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Honorable Mention
• “The Blade of Silver and Scale” in Loomings Literary Journal
• “Coroner’s Log”, “The Hotel Room”, “Life is Like a Group Project”, “Musings at 2AM”, “The Brick Builder”, and “Reflection” in The Bottom Line Magazine
• “Talk to Yourself! It’s Good for You” in LIU Post Writing Center’s Writing About Writing