Isa Borgeson
Isa Borgeson is a queer, mixed-race, Filipino American poet and community organizer.
The recipient of a 2025 Lambda Literary Poetry Fellowship, a 2025 Helen Toribio Kapwa Fellowship from Mesa Refuge, and a 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, Borgeson was also a finalist for Only Poems’ Poet of the Year Prize.
She lives in Oakland.