Isabel Mader Title: Freelance Writer Education: Emerson College, Fairleigh Dickinson University Isabel Mader is a freelance writer, editor, and professional with ten years of experience in the field. She joined the Instyle team this year and uses her love of high-quality beauty and home products and her appreciation of practical fashion to write for the commerce department.Highlights: Research writer for Honey Bunny Multimedia Company.Published poet (Chatsworth Press, Menacing Hedge, Clockhouse Literary Magazine, Slipstream Press, Blast Furnace, and others).Food journalist and restaurant reviewer for Simmer Magazine. Experience Isabel has been a writing and literature tutor and teacher since age nineteen. Most recently, she was the English, writing, and literature teacher for Longview School, a private school of democratic education in Brewster, New York. She has also been consistently freelancing for the better part of a decade. With the now defunct but always fabulous Simmer Magazine, she published food journalism and restaurant reviews of Boston's Chinatown neighborhood. Isabel worked with Honey Bunny Multimedia Company as a research writer for historical non-fiction. She became a parent in 2019 and her two very-active children allow her to effectively test how practical fashion can really be, on the playground and elsewhere. Education She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a BFA in Writing Literature and Publishing from Emerson College. About InStyle InStyle is an award-winning destination for fashion, beauty, and pop-culture, with an all-are-welcome ethos that swings open the proverbial velvet ropes. Whether you’re looking for a wardrobe refresh, haircut inspiration, or a story that’ll make sparkling cocktail-party conversation, our expert-connected coverage is where to start. Learn more about our team and editorial guidelines, here.