Isabel Kaplan grad­u­at­ed from Har­vard and holds an MFA in cre­ative writ­ing from NYU. She is the author of the nation­al best­selling YA nov­el Han­cock Park and a co-founder of Project 100, an orga­ni­za­tion launched after the 2016 elec­tion to sup­port pro­gres­sive women run­ning for Con­gress. She pre­vi­ous­ly worked in TV dra­ma devel­op­ment at Fox Broad­cast­ing Com­pa­ny. Isabel was born and raised in Los Angeles.