Isabel Sobral Campos

Isabel Sobral Campos is a poet, translator, and scholar. She is the author of The Optogram of the Mind is a Carnation, selected for the Futurepoem 2023 Other Futures Award, as well as two other full-length poetry collections and several chapbooks. She co-translated Salette Tavares’s LEX ICON (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024), and her poems have appeared in Fence, Boston Review, Black Sun Lit, the Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere.

Isabel holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on American, French, and Portuguese poetry and poetics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, environmental literature, experimental film, and literary theory. Her scholarly work has appeared in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, The Emily Dickinson Journal, symplokē, the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and elsewhere.

She edited the anthology Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays (Lexington Books, 2019) and co-founded Sputnik & Fizzle press.