Kimberly Alidio is a writer, teacher, and historian. She has published several essays, including “On Being Porous” in e-flux; a pamphlet with Rebecca Teich, Shared Discernments (1080PRESS Station Series No. 1); six chapbooks, including A Teaching Summer (Spiral Editions); and five books of poetry, most recently: Traceable Relation (Fonograf Editions) and Teeter, winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. Her poetry has been translated into Italian, Portuguese and Polish, and her visual, sound, and video work appears in Bæst, Ursula, Juf, and A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid Lit Anthology.

Her work is supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Spencer Foundation/ National Academy of Education, University of Illinois (Asian American Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship), Naropa University (The Zora Neale Hurston Scholarship), Kundiman (Poetry Fellowship), University of South Florida (Artist Residency), University of Arizona (Bill Waller Award in Creative Nonfiction), and New York Foundation for the Arts (NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry). She holds a MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona, a PhD in History from the University of Michigan, and a BA in History and English from Oberlin College. She regularly designs curricula and teaches language study, essay writing, poetics, critical theory and history for Bard Prison Initiative, Bard’s Masters of Art in Teaching, Poets House, and Kundiman.

With the poet Stacy Szymaszek, she lives on the unceded homelands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuck (today the Stockbridge-Munsee Community), otherwise known as New York’s Hudson Valley, and supports collective resistance, collective refusal, and collective flourishing to dismantle settler colonialism everywhere.