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Isabella J Mansfield (she/her) writes about anxiety, intimacy, and body image both generally and as a woman with a disability. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, two-time Best of the Net Nominee and a Write Bloody McCarthy Prize Honorable Mention, Isabella is always looking for ways to bring a little humor into her deeply personal poems, and is almost never sorry to make you cry. 

A woman with chin length, dark blonde hair is seated in a wheelchair. She faces the camera on stage, with a blue velvet curtain behind her, and a microphone angled to her left.

@isabellajmansfield

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“When some people die, they donate their body to science. In LEMON, Isabella J Mansfield offers up her body to poetry. A kaleidoscopic exploration of “a body assembled incorrectly,” each poem adjusts the lens and provides new texture, color, and shape to the author’s personal experience and complex medical history.

 

Chronicling her sudden paralysis at age twelve and paired with the insight of the following thirty years, this generous collection provides its readers with new depths of empathy, insight, understanding and compassion. I am so glad I read this book. I am more connected to the world and myself because of Mansfield's literary feat.”

 

Megan Falley, author of “Drive Here and Devastate Me”

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