Kimberly Alidio is a writer, teacher, and historian. She is a 2026 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry, and, with the writer Stacy Szymaszek, lives in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley on the sacred homelands of the Munsee and Muhheaconneok peoples, who, due to forced removal, reside in Northeast Wisconsin as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.

She has published numerous essays, including “On Being Porous” in e-flux and Shared Discernments with Rebecca Teich for the 1080PRESS Station Series; six chapbooks, including A Teaching Summer (Spiral Editions); and five books of poetry, including Traceable Relation (Fonograf Editions) and Teeter, winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award.

Her poetry has been translated into Italian, Polish, and Portuguese, and her sound, visual and video work appears in The Brooklyn Rail, FIVES, 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.

She supports collective resistance, collective refusal, and collective flourishing to dismantle settler colonialism everywhere.