A graduate of the Yale School of Drama and the University of Illinois, Tom Isbell spent his professional career acting in theatre, film and TV. He has written and performed three one-person plays and taken two productions to the Kennedy Center as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. He is the former National Playwriting Program chair for Region V of KCACTF.An associate professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, he was recently named the Albert Tezla Scholar/Teacher of the Year, as well as a Horace T. Morse Distinguished Teacher, the highest undergraduate teaching honor given within the University of Minnesota. He is happily married to Pat Isbell, who is both an actress and elementary school teacher.

PRAISE FOR THE PREY:‘Plays to its strong suits, with plenty of peril (human and otherwise) . . . will keep readers rooting for Book and Hope’ Publishers Weekly‘Dystopian fans will anxiously await the next instalment’Library School Journal‘An exciting concept’Kirkus Reviews

A graduate of the Yale School of Drama and the University of Illinois, Tom Isbell spent his professional career acting in theatre, film and TV. He has written and performed three one-person plays and taken two productions to the Kennedy Center as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. He is the former National Playwriting Program chair for Region V of KCACTF.An associate professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, he was recently named the Albert Tezla Scholar/Teacher of the Year, as well as a Horace T. Morse Distinguished Teacher, the highest undergraduate teaching honor given within the University of Minnesota. He is happily married to Pat Isbell, who is both an actress and elementary school teacher.

PRAISE FOR THE PREY:‘Plays to its strong suits, with plenty of peril (human and otherwise) . . . will keep readers rooting for Book and Hope’ Publishers Weekly‘Dystopian fans will anxiously await the next instalment’Library School Journal‘An exciting concept’Kirkus Reviews

A graduate of the Yale School of Drama and the University of Illinois, Tom Isbell spent his professional career acting in theatre, film and TV. He has written and performed three one-person plays and taken two productions to the Kennedy Center as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. He is the former National Playwriting Program chair for Region V of KCACTF.An associate professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, he was recently named the Albert Tezla Scholar/Teacher of the Year, as well as a Horace T. Morse Distinguished Teacher, the highest undergraduate teaching honor given within the University of Minnesota. He is happily married to Pat Isbell, who is both an actress and elementary school teacher.

PRAISE FOR THE PREY:‘Plays to its strong suits, with plenty of peril (human and otherwise) . . . will keep readers rooting for Book and Hope’ Publishers Weekly‘Dystopian fans will anxiously await the next instalment’Library School Journal‘An exciting concept’Kirkus Reviews