Isabel Zapata

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Isabel Zapata is a Mexico City–born writer and editor. She is the author of the poetry books Ventanas adentro (Ediciones Urdimbre, 2002), Las noches son así (Broken English, 2018), and Una ballena es un país (Almadía, 2019) as well as the bilingual essay collection Alberca vacía / Empty Pool (Argonáutica, 2019, trans. Robin Myers). Recent poems have appeared in English translation in Waxwing, The Common, Rio Grande Review, and are forthcoming in Words Without Borders.

  • The cover to Empty Pool by Isabel Zapata

    Empty Pool by Isabel Zapata

    Isabel Zapata
    Austin / Houston. Hablemos Escritoras / Literal. 2024. 105 pages.In the prologue to Isabel Zapata’s Empty Pool, Robin Myers translates Alejandro Zambra as he quotes Zapata he…
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    And Make It Last, and Give It Space

    July 6, 2020 Isabel Zapata
    Photo by Alex Pasarelu / Unsplash A new mother in Mexico contemplates the future—for her daughter, for all of us. On February 1, 2020, as I was giving birth in Mexico…