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Bobbie Isabel

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2024

Bobbie Isabel is a lover of words. She spent her childhood escaping in books and finding solace in the public library. Her career in education circled around language in all its forms (spoken, aural, written, etc.), and she takes all of those experiences into account in her writing. As an adult, she finds healing in poetry, exploring themes such as vulnerability and authenticity in her poems. When she’s not writing, you can find her in the audience reveling in the language-rich environment of musical theater.

When Can We Be Soft?: Poems of Female Resilience

When Can We Be Soft?: Poems of Female Resilience

In this debut poetry collection, Bobbie Isabel explores the pressure women face to constantly be strong, and the exploitation they endure when the world will not let them be soft. Employing a combination of free verse and more traditional forms, Bobbie expresses the female perspective of strength and resilience through pain, trauma, and ultimately hope. Within poetic expression, she has found her voice, as the poem "Keeping Silent" says, that speaks for the little girl she was, that comforts her tormented adolescent self, and that fortifies the broken woman she has been with boundaries of empathy and compassion for who she was at each stage and what she lived, understanding that her tears were not silent but rather screams of injustice.

Lilli and the Nervous Narwhal

Lilli and the Nervous Narwhal

Thanks to her magical footie pajamas, Lilli’s dreams take her to far away lands where rare and endangered animals live and play. Tonight, Lilli travels to the Arctic to swim with the beluga whales and meets up with a very nervous narwhal named Norbert.

The Maenad

The Maenad

In a world where the gods have gone quiet, the arrival of a dragon on the night of her sister’s birth shatters Skyemera’s reality. Family secrets bubble to the surface, disrupting the once quiet nymph community and revealing the impossibility of Skyemera’s existence. Forced to leave the safety of The Thicket, Skyemera fights to conquer the terrifying magic that threatens to consume her.

As she grows stronger, so does the pull from those who seek to control her.

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