Kimberly Alidio is a trained historian, a literary writer, and a teacher with three decades of experience in varied educational and cultural settings.

She has published five books of poetry and poetic prose: Traceable Relation (Fonograf Editions); Teeter (Nightboat Books, winner of the 2022 Nightboat Poetry Prize and the 2024 Lambda Literary Award); why letter ellipses (selva oscura); : once teeth bones coral : (Belladonna*, finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award); and after projects the resound (Black Radish). Her recent essays and short-form publications include: Shared Discernments, with Rebecca Teich (1080 Press), A Teaching Summer (Spiral Editions), and “On Being Porous” in e-flux. 

While teaching history and writing for Bard Prison Initiative and Bard’s Masters of Arts in Teaching, she regularly mentors and leads workshops in literary prose and poetry for arts organizations such as The Poetry Project, Poets House, and Kundiman. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts 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.

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.