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Tajja Isen is a Canadian writer, editor, and actor. Her first book, the essay collection Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service, was published in April 2022. As an actress, she is best known for voicing the title character Atomic Betty.
Tajja Isen. I’m the author of the essay collection Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service, which Elle called “often hilarious, always thought-provoking”; Electric Literature called “expansive”; and Kirkus Reviews called “stellar.”.
Apr 7, 2022 · In an excerpt from her new book, Tajja Isen explores her longtime obsession with literary whiteness and how she stopped trying with a focus on "tiny white men." Their writing is seen as "good...
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.
Actress: Atomic Betty. Tajja Isen was born on 29 June 1991 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Atomic Betty (2004), Super Why! (2007) and The Berenstain Bears (1985).
A fearless and darkly comic essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions. In this stunning debut, Tajja Isen explores the absurdity of living in a world that apologizes for structural racism, yet makes only cosmetic attempts to solve it.
Apr 22, 2022 · In "Some of My Best Friends," Tajja Isen tackles how a society fluent in the language of social justice still can't follow through with actions.
TAJJA ISEN’s first book, Some of My Best Friends, was named a Best Book of the Year by outlets including Electric Literature, The Globe and Mail, and CBC Books. The former editor-in-chief of Catapult Magazine, she has also edited for The Walrus and Electric Literature, and she co-edited the essay anthology The World as We Knew It: Dispatches ...
Tajja Isen is the author of A Town Called Solace (4.03 avg rating, 24772 ratings, 2646 reviews, published 2021), Some of My Best Friends (3.89 avg rating...
Through nine "often hilarious, always thought-provoking" (ELLE) essays, Isen explores that discord with razor-sharp humour. Troubling though this contradiction may be, she oberves, it can also be unexpectedly funny.
