Isabelle Ghabash is an unreliable narrator, a poet, and an architect.

While she lives in the United States and calls the Great Salt Lake valley home, her people come from Lebanon and Germany.  Isabelle's writing explores archetypes, folklore, dreams, and intertwined love and grief—and has appeared in several local anthologies, as well as indie international magazines. She also channels the wise voice of the moon every month on her Substack, Interview the Moon.  Her first chapbook "Venus in Scorpio" was published by Moon in the Rye Press in 2026 and is now available for pre-order.

Published Poems

  • Featured in the 4th edition of Clarion magazine. This edition of was specifically published to give Palestinian and Lebanese voices some space to speak, but also to provide “genuine medicine against the waves of despair that threaten, at times, to overwhelm us” (Clarion).

  • Poem text. Included in irreplaceable: a collective praise poem for great salt lake published by Moon in the Rye Press (2024) and composed by nan seymour. In response to the on-going ecosystem collapse of the Great Salt Lake, irreplaceable tries to sing the lake back to life before its too late.

  • Published in lake words vol. ii

  • Included in the We Want to Tell You: A She Said Anthology published by the Salt Lake Community Writing Center in collaboration with The Salt Lake Tribune and Amplify Utah.

  • A short poem and graphic design chosen by the Salt Lake Redevelopment Agency to be part of an outdoor art exhibit when traditional art venues were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Displayed in the Sugarhouse Collection.

Published Collections