Isadora Deese

A native of Kentucky, Isadora Deese is a graduate of Indiana University's English Literature and Theatre programs and Boston University Master’s Playwriting Program, where she studied with Saul Bellow and Derek Walcott. Her fiction explores the evolving connections between technology, art, and nature that are shaping our near future.

Isadora helped coordinate some of the first iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) competitions at MIT. She co-wrote "Adventures in Synthetic Biology" with Drew Endy and the Synthetic Biology Working Group, illustrated by Chuck Wadey, which in 2005, was the first comic to be on the cover of Nature. She is currently a Board member of the BioBuilder Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to expanding STEM curriculum in middle school, high school, and community colleges to include bioengineering principles and skills.

She is married to writer and historian R.S. Deese, author of We Are Amphibians: Julian and Aldous Huxley on the Future of our Species (UC Press, 2014). They live in the Boston area with their three sons and two cats.