Isabel also participated in the workshops Orlando González Gutiérrez, conducted by the Curican poet Juan Jofré Bustamante; Huelén, by Martín Cerda and Hernán Ortega (1982); and when she was living in Santiago, Espacio, by Osvaldo Ulloa (1990–1991).

She has been a librarian at the York School (Peñalolén commune), director of the Chilean Writers' Society [es], and her poems have been included in various anthologies and published in both national and foreign journals.

Three years later her first collection of poems, Un crudo paseo por la sonrisa, appeared in Santiago with a foreword by professor and writer Sergio Bueno Venegas.

This book established her as a poet; Teiller highlighted her "acute inner search" illuminated by "the lightning bolts" of intuition, while José Arraño Acevedo wrote that it is "a true spiritual renewal" in the way of approaching feminine poetry, "which seeks to free itself from that which links it to old traditions.

As Alejandro Lavquén [es] points out, "the handling of the word and its manifestation, expressed in just and precise verses, in images of great beauty and intimacy.