raised in Michigan near the back of his parents’ used bookstore, Isaac Pickell is a Black & Jewish poet, PhD candidate, and adjunct instructor in Detroit. a Cave Canem Fellow, Isaac is a graduate of Miami University's MFA program. his work’s been featured in Black Warrior Review, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Fence, The Missouri Review, and Ninth Letter, and you can find his stuff online at Brevity, diode poetry journal, Protean Magazine, or Sixth Finch.

Isaac is the author of the chapbook everything saved will be last (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) and the full length collection It’s not over once you figure it out (Black Ocean, 2023). He’s has taken a seat in all fifty states and has so much to look forward to.