Tara Isabella Burton is working on a doctorate in French decadent fiction at the University of Oxford. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Shimmer, Arc, Litro, and The Dr TJ Eckleburg Review; her nonfiction can be found in Guernica, The New Statesman, The Spectator, and more. She is represented by the Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency; her first novel is currently out on submission.