bio
Isabel Bezerra Balée received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University in 2015, and has previously taught creative writing at Tulane University. Originally from New Orleans, and with roots in Northern Brazil, she lived in Oakland for several years before moving to Philly where she currently lives. Her first book, diluvium // a bluejay, was published by Dogpark Collective in 2021. By day, she manages a small biotech design agency.
selected poetry
vanitas for contemporaneous ambiguity | elderly
3 poems | dreginald
apparatus against the womb | mary journal
3 poems | ursus americanus press
organism | elderly
from "lacerations" | littletell
land of eroded womb | prelude
essays
maqroll refuses to die | em wolfman (print)
symptoms & sources | jacket2