Işıl Tezol

I write fiction about memory, inheritance, and the quiet negotiations between love and power.

My work often lives at the edges of systems: archival, technological, familial, historical. I’m interested in what gets preserved, what is erased, and what survives anyway. Much of my writing explores intimacy under pressure; relationships shaped by institutions, by time, and by forces that claim authority over the body or the future.

 The Child of None, is the first book of a trilogy that is a work of speculative fiction set in a near-future London. It follows an archivist whose private life collides with systems that insist on ownership, explanation, and control. The book sits between literary fiction and speculative realism, concerned less with spectacle than with consequence.

Alongside my work as an author, I practice astrology under the name isilonastro. Astrology informs how I think about time, cycles, and narrative causality, but my fiction is not an extension of consultation work. It is its own discipline, with its own questions.

I divide my time between writing, research, teaching and mothering my two boys.