Artist biography
Isabel Cristina Lanzetta knows Arizona to be home. Her work is forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review. Previous work has been published by Oakland Arts Review, New Reader Magazine, Leviathan, Curios Magazine, and Convergence: Young Authors of Arizona, among others. Isabel’s poetry often explores inherited stories of displacement, cultural erasure, and embodied memory. She received her BA in English and Southwest Studies from Colorado College. Isabel was awarded the 2023 Emerging Writer Fellowship in Poetry from the Lighthouse Writers Workshop. In 2015, her poetry was awarded a silver medal for best teen poetry of Arizona by Scholastic Magazine. As an interdisciplinary artist, you may find her engaged with written and visual storytelling, metalwork, and movement. She currently lives in Denver.
Outside of writing, Isabel Lanzetta is a passionate metalworker. Her work can be found on Instagram @fromsandstone. In 2016, she was awarded a grant to photograph and document a woman’s life with dementia, from which she developed a passion for storytelling in its varied forms.