Isobel Bess is an experimental musician, poet, multimedia artist, sound engineer, comedian, aspiring juggler, film programmer, and non-practicing archaeologist from the southern Missouri Ozarks. She runs a small zine press and tape label called Other Spaces. You can find her work below.

[Music / Selected Solo Works]

Nameless Cartographer – Endless Ruin
(Fantasy Audio Magazine, 2025)

Even These Heights Concealed
(Grimalkin Records, 2024)

Cybergorge Manifesto
(GORGE.IN, 2023)

Insect Transformation Ritual
(2023)

Wander Lines
(2022)

Light Play
(Grimalkin Records, 2022)

Summation Of Tensions Between Recognized And Encountered
(2020)

What The Ocean Felt Like Bursting
(2020)

Deep New Unstable Against
(2018)

A Confluence (A Baring Of Teeth)
(2017)

untitled
(2015)

Threshold
(2015)

Pleistocene Megafauna
(2013)

Simple Harmonic Motion
(2008)

[Music / Selected Collaborations and Compilations]

I hear a new mountain
(GORGE.IN, 2023)

The DollyDollar Mixed Box
(Grimalkin Records, 2022)

GORGE OUT "HERE" 2022
(GORGE.IN, 2022)

moonmakersunion - antennae
(with Natalie Braginsky, 2019)

[Poetry / Collections]

Distance Montage
(Other Spaces, 2025)

anyway i saw a light there
(2020)

Braided Channel
(with Amy Marvin, 2020)

Taphonomy
(Best Buds! Collective, 2020)

[Poetry / Selected Publications]

Three Poems From a Precipice
(Sinister Wisdom 139, 2026)

Picked up a golf ball by the side of the road
(as F. M. Cassandra, New Session issue 3, 2025)

Elegy for a Midwestern Punk Scene + a sonnet
(Wax Nine, 2020)

Elegy for My Master's Thesis + Poem Written in an Emergency Room Outside Philadelphia
(Prolit issue 3, 2020)

Five Poems
(Radical Trans Poetry vol. 1, edited by Jamie Berrout, 2019)

Idyll 5 / Bank People
(Stonewall 50, Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019)

Elegy for L'homme
(Peach Magazine, Peach Gold Prize, 2019)

Idyll 7 / A History of the St. Johns River
(smoke + mold issue 1, 2019)

Instructions for a Diorama + Eugene
(Nat. Brut issue 11, 2019)

Hatch
(Witch Craft Magazine issue 4, 2018)

Centralia + Springfield
(Emerge: Lambda Fellows Anthology, Lambda Literary, 2017)

[Multimedia / Videogames]

Sick Gallery
(Bitsy Jam #77, 2023)

Sleep Cycle
(Bitsy Jam #68, 2022)

Endless Ruin Chapter II: Hall of Spores
(2022)

Endless Ruin Chapter I: Toward The Endless Ruin
(2022)

[Theory]

Atmospheres of Conversion: Trans Cinema, Tactics, and t4t Sociality
(with Amy Marvin, in philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Transcontinental Feminism, 2026)