"Dear" deals with resignation to assimilation and the conflicting emotions that accompany migration and the finding of "home."

Isabella’s poetry reflects the push and pull of identity, memory, and cultural heritage. Based on personal experiences, she writes to explore the complexities of growing up between worlds: preserving traditions while adapting to new realities. Family, gender, and belonging are common themes her work returns to in an attempt to make sense of what it means to hold on to the past while forging a path forward. She works in vivid, tangible imagery to capture moments both beautiful and tense in their contribution to self-discovery. It is an endeavor that allows a space for honest, concise language where contradictions coexist: the burden of heritage versus freedom into individuality. Through her writing, she hopes to create a space where roots are grown deeper and can even sprout anew. Her poetry is a testament to this delicate yet strong process of identity recovery through lived experience and human connections.