Tara Isabella Burton has written on religion, culture, and place for The New York Times, National Geographic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, City Journal, The Economist’s 1843, Aeon, The BBC, The Atlantic, Salon, The New Statesman, ​and The Telegraph. She is a columnist at Religion News Service, a Contributing Editor at American Purpose, and the former staff religion writer at Vox. Her fiction has appeared in ​Granta, Volume 1 Brooklyn, The New Yorker‘s Daily Shouts, Tor.com, PANK, and more.

​She received a doctorate in theology from Trinity College, Oxford, where she was a Clarendon Scholar, in 2017.