About Tajja
Tajja Isen is a writer, editor, and voice actor. Her first book, Some of My Best Friends, was published in 2022 and was named a Best Book of the Year by Electric Literature, The Globe and Mail, CBC Books, and Daily Hive. Her next book, the memoir Tough Love, is forthcoming in spring 2027. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Black Mountain Institute, the Ucross Foundation, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
She is currently the editor-in-chief of Orion magazine and a contributing writer for The Walrus, where she writes about books, culture, and—perhaps most notoriously—the publishing industry. Her column for The Walrus was recognized with an honorable mention at both the 2024 National Magazine Awards and the 2024 Digital Publishing Awards. The former editor-in-chief of Catapult magazine, she has also edited for The Walrus and Electric Literature, and is co-editor of the essay anthology The World As We Knew It (also published in 2022). A voice actor for over two decades, Tajja can be heard on such animated shows as Atomic Betty, The Berenstain Bears, Super Why!, Go Dog Go, My Big Big Friend, Jane and the Dragon, and many others.
She writes an infrequent newsletter on writing and publishing called Creative Practice and can be found on various social media platforms under the handle @tajja.isen. Originally from Toronto, she lives in Las Vegas by way of New York City.