“I will tell an old story of my name.” Hudson NY train station. Via Flow Chart Foundation, Create Council and Nightboat Books. Photo: Stacy Szymaszek

Kimberly Alidio is the author of 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 short poetry publications include: A Teaching Summer (Spiral Editions); “The Girls and a Joke” (1080 Press); Room Tone (Belladonna*); a cell of falls (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), shaping and edging (Center for Art and Thought), and solitude being alien (Dancing Girl Press).

Her essays have appeared in e-flux, Poetry Foundation, American Quarterly, Social Text, Journal of American History, and Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of the Nation and Diaspora. 

She teaches for Bard Prison Initiative and Bard College Masters of Arts in Teaching. She has designed and facilitated workshops for Poets House, Poetry Society of New York, Flow Chart Foundation, The Poetry Project, Kundiman, and Naropa’s Summer Writing Program. She has been a Mentor for The Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship; Writing Faculty for The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts; Poetry and Composition Instructor at The University of Arizona; Visiting Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Illinois; Social Sciences Faculty at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School (Austin, TX); and Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies at The University of Texas.

 

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. Her writing and research has been supported by The University of Arizona, Kundiman, Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School, The Mellon Foundation, The University of Illinois, and The Spencer Foundation/ National Academy of Education. 

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.