Isabel Lachenauer, writing under the name Isabel Cañas, is a speculative fiction writer.
Biography Cañas was born on November 8, 1990. She lived for nine years in Orange County, California. She graduated from New Trier High School in Illinois in 2009. She earned a Master of Arts degree with honors in Arabic and Middle Eastern studies at the University of St Andrews in 2013 and a Master of Science degree in advanced Arabic from the University of Edinburgh in 2014. During her time at St Andrews, she studied abroad at the American University in Cairo in 2011. She earned a master's degree in 2017 and a doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 2022 from the University of Chicago. Her advisor was Hakan Karateke.
Writing Her debut novel, The Hacienda (2022), was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. In 2023, she published her second novel, Vampires of El Norte. It was nominated for an Endeavour Award.
Works Books The Hacienda (2022) Vampires of El Norte (2023) The Possession of Alba Díaz (2025) The House of Gardenias (2026)
Short stories "There Are No Monsters on Rancho Buenavista" (2022) "All the Things I Know About Ghosts" (2023) "The Hand that Feeds", in Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror (2026)
References
External links Official website