Isabella DeSendi

Isabella DeSendi (she/her) is a Latina poet and educator whose work has been published in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The Adroit Journal, Rattle, Brink, and other publications. Her chapbook Through the New Body won a Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship and was published in 2020.

She has received support from Poets & Writers, Brooklyn Poets, Storyknife, and Bread Loaf. DeSendi was a finalist for a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, Rattle's Poetry Prize, Frontier Poetry’s Digital Poetry Chapbook Prize, a June Jordan Fellowship, Narrative magazine’s Annual Poetry Prize, and Palette Poetry’s Spotlight Award. Isabella earned an MFA from Columbia University.