About
Isabel Cruz is a Boricua poet and the Youth Poetry Ambassador for the Paterson Poetry Festival. In 2024, she received her B.A. in American Studies and English Creative Writing with a Poetry Concentration from Smith College. Among other honors, she was awarded the 2023 Eleanor Cederstrom Prize, the 2024 Five College Prose and Poetry Prize, and the 2024 Elizabeth Babcock Prize. Her work has been published by The Poetry Society of New York, When Women Speak, Ghost City Review, and other publications. In October 2024, she was a Featured Poet at the Dodge Poetry Festival.
Isabel Cruz has performed in venues such as the legendary Bowery Poetry Club, The Dodge Poetry Festival at the NJPAC, The Newark Arts Festival, the Williams Center, the New York Poetry Festival, and the Paterson Poetry Festival.