F. Isabel Campoy is the award winning author of numerous children's books in the areas of poetry, theatre, stories, biographies, and art. As a researcher she has published extensively bringing to the curriculum an awareness of the richness of the Hispanic culture. She is an educator specialized in the area of literacy and home school interaction, topics on which she lecturers nationally. An internationally recognized scholar devoted to the study of language acquisition, a field in which she started publishing in l973 after obtaining her degrees in English Philology from Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain; Reading University in England, and UCLA in the United States. She is a 2003 Laureate author, awarded by San Francisco Public Library and is also the recipient of the 2005 Reading the World Award from the University of San Francisco. F. Isabel Campoy has collaborated with Alma Flor Ada on numerous children's books.

Isabel lives and works in San Francisco, CA.