Isabella J. Mansfield (she her) writes about anxiety, body image, both generally and as a woman with a disability, intimacy, and the human condition. Mansfield has performed at The Oberon Theatre, Cambridge, MA, Nambucca London, U.K., and at various readings and open mics across the US. In 2017, she was a Brittany Noakes Award semi-finalist. She won the inaugural 2018 Mark Ritzenhein Emerging Author Award and Finishing Line Press published her Pushcart Prize nominated chapbook, The Hollows of Bone, in 2019. She lives in Howell, MI with her family. IG: @isabellajmansfield
The Space Between My Favorite Season and My Seasonal Depression
A poem by Isabella J Mansfield
At the end of October I drive two hours to wander the botanical garden. I sit at the top of a hill and listen for something that feels like answers to questions I haven’t asked, but all I can hear is the traffic. The air is damp, the clouds mutter maledictions in the distance and […]
In Las Vegas, the streetlights glowed neon and I learned about the Latchkey Kids
My eight-year-old home, broken into by divorce, didn’t feel different than any other Midwestern kid’s, with their two-parent homes, single income, dad works at the Ford plant and mom home making the house smell like fresh baked goods. All of us played until the streetlights came on, but we were not the same. At nine, […]
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