Isa Gitana

Isa Gitana is a Romani, Indigenous Mexican, and Italian queer femme poet writing about ancestry, survival, and the sacred ordinary. Her work moves between lyric tenderness and cultural critique, exploring life in a body shaped by migration, erasure, and resilience. She has been published in the Dear Sister anthology and in Meat for Tea literary magazine. A lifelong community builder, she treats poetry as woven into kitchens, classrooms, altars, and conversation. She is drawn to work that holds softness as power and storytelling as resistance. Isabella is a non-traditional student at Holyoke Community College, preparing to transfer for her bachelor’s degree. She lives in Western Massachusetts, writing, studying, and tending the small, persistent magic of community.