New Jersey native Ysabel Y. Gonzalez, is also known for her performance poetry under the alias Ancestral Poetisa. She received her BA from Rutgers University, an MFA in Poetry from Drew University and works for the Poetry Program at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Ysabel has received invitations to attend VONA, Tin House, Ashbery Home School and BOAAT Press workshops. She is a CantoMundo Fellow, and is also the Program Director for the BOAAT Writing Retreat. Ysabel has been published in Vinyl; It was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop; IMANIMAN: Poets Reflect on Transformative & Transgressive Borders Through Gloria Anzaldúa's Work; If You Can Hear This: Poems in Protest of an American Inauguration; Wide Shore, Waxwing Literary Journal, and others. You can read more of her work at www.ysabelgonzalez.com.