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. She is currently working on her second book, Tough Love, a memoir of mentorship, for which she was awarded a Spring 2024 Shearing Fellowship at the Black Mountain Institute.
She is the interim editor-in-chief of Orion magazine and a contributing writer for The Walrus, where her column received an honorable mention at the 2024 National Magazine Awards. The former editor-in-chief of Catapult magazine, she has also edited for The Walrus and Electric Literature and co-edited the essay anthology The World As We Knew It. 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 tweets @tajjaisen and has an infrequent newsletter on writing and publishing called Creative Practice. She has lived in Toronto, New York, and Las Vegas. When she ordered the cocktail in the photo, she didn’t realize it was going to be that creamy.