Ysabel Y. Gonzalez

Ysabel Y. González (she/her/hers) works with the Poetry Program at the Dodge Foundation to celebrate language, poetry, and the arts. She coordinates the program’s poet visits and mini-festivals; and assists the director in the coordination of the biennial national Dodge Poetry Festival. 

Ysabel was raised in Newark and received her bachelor’s from Rutgers University and her MFA in Poetry from Drew University. Before joining the Dodge Foundation, Ysabel worked for Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Ysabel is also a CantoMundo Fellow, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and author of Wild Invocations (Get Fresh Books, 2019).

When Ysabel isn’t at her desk, you can find her writing and performing her own poems.