Tara Isabella Burton is a prolific writer whose work spans across various topics including religion, culture, and place. Her writing has been featured in many respected publications such as National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, The Economist's 1843, Aeon, The BBC, The Atlantic, The American Interest, Salon, The New Statesman, The Telegraph, and more. Burton's fiction pieces have been published in The New Yorker's Daily Shouts, Great Jones Street, Tor.com, PANK, Shimmer, among other outlets.

Her accolades include winning The Spectator's 2012 Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and a 2016 Lowell Thomas Award. Burton's debut novel, Social Creature, was released by Doubleday in the US and Bloomsbury/Raven in the UK in June 2018.