A woman with shoulder length brown hair wearing a camel clouored coat stands smiling in front of a black iron railing. Behind here is a larged, ruined sandstone building, the rmains of an abbey, with a decrotative arched adoorway to the left of the picture.

Ali Isaac

About Ali

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I write from the intersection of female senescence with landscape and literature.

Female Senescence | The hag | The crone | The wise-woman | Unbecoming and transforming | Woman ageing authentically.

Landscape | Natural and human-made.

Literature | The body | of written works | The oral tradition | of folklore and myth.

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Ali Isaac lives in Ireland with her husband, two sons, and daughter, Carys. In 2020, she was awarded a mentorship for Imperfect Bodies with author Sara Baume by Words Ireland in conjunction with the Arts Council of Ireland. She was also selected for the Penguin Write Now Program 2020.

In 2021, she was the recipient of a Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. Ali has been published in literary journals The Stinging Fly, Sonder, Paper Lanterns, Catatonic Daughters, and in Woman & Home, and The Sunday Independent.

She is currently working on a literary historical novel for which she has been awarded a Literature Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland.