Photo: Angela Vicente
Meet the author
Isabel ‘Isa’ Agajanian (they/them) is a queer author and illustrator currently living in the Pacific Northwest.
A lifelong lover of SFF, Isa, along with their beloved cat, Mossie, strives to tell stories that imbue contemporary timelines with a little bit of magic.
Their debut contemporary fantasy novel MODERN DIVINATION was re-released in 2025, with a sequel released the following year. Alongside that, their sapphic sci-fi romance novel HEAVY METAL LOVER was self-published.
You can find them posting on social media and haunting local bookstores.
Press kit
All photos by Angela Vicente
Short Bio
Isabel ‘Isa’ Agajanian is the author of the Spells for Life and Death duology, Heavy Metal Lover, and other messy romantic fantasies. A lifelong lover of SFF in all formats, Isa haunts the Pacific Northwest with their cat familiar, Mossie, offering unsolicited book and tea recommendations and looking for magic in the mundane. You can find them on Instagram @isa.agajanian giving more unsolicited recommendations on books.
Press Contact Information
For event inquiries in the UK, please reach out to olivia-savannah.roach@macmillan.com
For event inquiries in the US please, reach out to tina.joell@macmillan.com
For rights inquiries, blurb requests, and other professional inquiries, please contact: alex@madwomanliterary.com
Modern Divination
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A Discovery of Witches meets The Atlas Six in Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian, a dark contemporary fantasy from a brilliant new talent. Modern Divination is the first book in the Spells for Life and Death duology.
The colour of magic was gold . . .
Twenty-three-year-old witch Aurelia Schwartz has always had to carefully balance her human life with her secret magical one. With a place at an elite Cambridge university college, she almost has everything she could possibly want within her grasp. Just so long as she follows the rules: Make no promises. Tell no one what you are. And never stay the night.
Except Aurelia’s gift of green magic has begun to fade. Worse still, someone is hunting witches – and stealing their powers. Reluctantly, Aurelia needs the help of fellow witch – and dreadfully arrogant classmate – Theodore Ingram. Together, they seek refuge among his family in the remote corners of an already-desolate town. But as she grows closer to Theodore, the power-hungry witch-killer, too, draws nearer. And they threaten to destroy everything Aurelia holds dear . . .
Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian is a magical cosy fantasy with witches, featuring an academic rivals-to-lovers romance, found family and yearning.
