Izzy Ampil is a writer & critic based in Brooklyn. She is currently a Margins Fellow in fiction at the Asian American Writers' Workshop and was recently an editorial intern at The Paris Review. Read her essays, fiction, criticism, and reporting at BuzzFeed News, the Wall Street Journal, Reboot, the Daily Beast, the Roanoke Review, Barzakh Magazine, & elsewhere. Follow her on X, subscribe to her Substack, or get in touch.