Originally from Portland, Maine, Desi Isaacson is currently enrolled at UC-Irvine’s MFA Program in Writing, concentrating on fiction. He holds his MA in English Literature from Georgetown University and his writing can be found in Allium, Down East, Riverfront Times, and Lying Four.
Selected work
How to Love
Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose, 2025
FictionShort StoryLiterary
Letting in the Repellent
Philip Roth Studies, 2026
NonfictionEssayAcademic Writing
“Going the Full Length”: Authorial Shamelessness in the Work of Roth, Adichie, and Miller
Georgetown University, 2024
NonfictionLong ReadAcademic & Scholarly
Book Review- “Understanding Philip Roth”
Philip Roth Studies, 2024
NonfictionEssayAcademic & Scholarly
Voices: Art in the Dirt
Lying Four, 2021
NonfictionEssayLiterary Journalism