Talia Isaacson (she/they) is a writer living on unceded Ohlone land in Oakland, California. Her work reaches toward Giorgio Agamben's “silva” — the place where linguistic representation ends and language’s texture, its woodlike fiber, emerges. Informed by a glottal block stutter, Talia’s work seeks to navigate this terrain beyond representation. Her work is deeply situated in the agricultural and ecological, exploring patterns of fluency and the wisdom in derailing them.

Talia has received support from Fishouse Poems and the University of Virginia's MFA Program, where they were a Poe-Faulkner Fellow and the recipient of a Henfield Prize in Fiction. Their work is published or forthcoming in Narrative, EcoTheo, Ninth Letter, THRUSH, and elsewhere.