About Me

Isabella A. Salcedo is a poet, oral historian, researcher, adjunct professor, and writing mentor from Central Virginia. She writes poetry with a sense of urgency and determination for life after experiencing a school shooting. Through her creative and academic pursuits, she hopes to understand her capacity for empathy and gratitude, her familial histories, her ever-changing political body, her people and the places she calls home.

Isabella has been a selected reader for READ THE ROOM at Dupont Underground, at Kramers Bookstore, and for the 804 Lit Salon in Washington, D.C. She has been published in UVAToday, Zaum, Cafe MFA, and V Magazine.