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Izzy Ampil was born in the Bronx and now lives in Brooklyn. She is, among other things, an editor at Blank Forms, a fact-checker at The Paris Review and The American Scholar, and a writer of fiction and criticism. 

Izzy earned a BA in English Literature with Honors in the Arts from Stanford University in 2021. Since then, her writing has been supported by BuzzFeed News, where she was a 2022-23 Culture & Criticism Fellow; the Asian American Writers' Workshop, where she is a 2024-25 Margins Fellow in Fiction; and Millay Arts, where she was a Writer-in-Residence in September 2024.

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