Ysabel Y. González was born in the Bronx, NY and raised in Newark, New Jersey. She received her BA from Rutgers University and MFA in Poetry from Drew University. She serves as the Assistant Director for the Poetry Program at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Ysabel is a CantoMundo Fellow and has received invitations to attend VONA, Tin House, Ashbery Home School and BOAAT Press workshops. Her most recent book of poetry is WILD INVOCATIONS (Get Fresh Books LLC, 2019). Her poetry has appeared in Origins Journal, Nice Cage, Tinderbox Journal, Anomaly (FKA Drunken Boat), DMQ Review, If You Can Hear This: Poems in Protest of an American Inauguration, Vinyl, IMANIMAN: Poets Reflect on Transformative & Transgressive Borders Through Gloria Anzaldúa's Work, El Centro: Nuyorican Women Writers, The Wide Journal, Waxwing Literary Journal, Acentos Review, Huizache, Kalyani Magazine, APIARY Magazine, and phati'tude Literary Magazine.