Newark, NJ native Ysabel Y. González (she/her), received her BA from Rutgers University, an MFA in Poetry from Drew University, and serves as Producer, Poetry & Social Impact at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and Dodge Poetry. Previously, she has also worked at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Ysabel has received invitations to attend VONA, Tin House, and CantoMundo workshops. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, author of Wild Invocations (Get Fresh Books, 2019) and Sing This Body Out (FlowerSong Press, 2026). Ysabel is her ancestors' dream and comes from a long lineage of strong-willed women. You can find her in New Jersey, with her husband and two furbabies, resisting, writing, crafting, gardening and reading oracles. Visit www.ysabelgonzalez.com for more.