Izabela Ilowska holds a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. She received her MA in English Philology from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 2004. She also has an MA in English Studies from Queen Mary, University of London and an MLitt (Distinction) in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow.

Her fiction has appeared in New Writing Scotland, Gutter Magazine, and Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine.

Her academic interests include creative writing, American studies, and memory studies.

She has taught comparative literature and creative writing at the University of Glasgow. Since 2016, she has been leading fiction writing workshops at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.