Home is Where by Isabel Rose Soloaga

Isabel Rose Soloaga is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, writer, and poet whose work explores displacement, intergenerational memory, and practices of homemaking. Shaped by more than a decade working alongside refugee and immigrant communities, her storytelling bridges art, research, and social justice. Home Is Where is her debut poetry collection.

PRAISE:

In Home Is Where, Isabel Rose Soloaga offers a powerful debut poetry collection that asks what it means to belong when home has been fractured by migration, displacement, and war. Drawing from years of work with refugee and immigrant communities, these poems move with tenderness and precision across borders, generations, and intimate rooms of memory. Fig trees, kitchens, borderlands, and inherited silences become sites where survival is not only endured but transformed. At once lyrical and unflinching, Home Is Where gathers the fragments of loss, resilience, and collective care into a moving meditation on how home is remembered, resisted, and remade. This is a collection for anyone who has carried a place within them—and for anyone learning that home can be both wound and refuge, absence and offering.

—Leah Huete de Maines, Poet-in-Residence Emerita, Northern Kentucky University