Isabel Murcia Estrada is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Hispanic Languages & Literature at Stony Brook University. She holds two Licenciaturas: Filología Hispánica (Universidad de Almería), and Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas (Universidad de Sevilla). She earned an MA in Gender Studies at Universidad de Almería. Her research interests include Women Studies; Peninsular Literature (19th-20th centuries); Transatlantic Studies, and Migrant Literature, focused on Spanish exile. Her dissertation focuses on female Spanish intellectuals experiencing exile during the 20th century.

Isabel Murcia is also co-founder of the poetry room América Invertida, as well as co-editor of the homonymous poetry journal from 2018.