Illuminating Our Voices

Isabella Moreno is the founder of Illuminating Our Voices. For 15+ years she has created workshops for creatives/people of color. She is a Nuyorican proudly hailing from the Bronx; writing, gardening and blossoming in Cleveland, Ohio. She believes joy can always be found in collective spaces of shared creation.

Her short stories have been included in: Peregrine Journal (January 2025), Boundaries & Borders anthology (2024) and Cleveland Humanities Festival (2019).

Her personal writing explores, and gives testament to, memories, recollections and anecdotes influenced by her multi-generational (multi-hyphenated) familial experiences with an ever-changing historical background.

* Isabella has been writing with the AWA (Amherst Writers & Artists) methodology since 1999, facilitating AWA philosophy based workshops since 2009, and became AWA certified facilitator in 2019. Illuminating Our Voices is a proud affiliate of AWA.