Isabel Neal is the author of Thrown Voice, which won the 2025 Yale Younger Poets Prize, selected by Rae Armantrout.

Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Waxwing, The Yale Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere. Neal was a 2024 Lighthouse Works Fellow and has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from Haystack Open Studio, the James Merrill House, the Rackham International Institute, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.

She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Michigan and lives in southern Maine, where she teaches writing and literature to young adults.