Kimberly Alidio is an historian, a literary writer, and a teacher.

She has published five books of poetry and poetic prose. Her most recent publications are: Traceable Relation  (Fonograf Editions); Shared Discernments with Rebecca Teich (1080 Press Station Series No. 1); A Teaching Summer, a dos-a-dos chapbook with Rachelle Rahmé’s Hieroglyphics Then and Now (Spiral Editions); “On Being Porous” in e-flux; and Teeter (winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award). Her poems have been translated into Italian, Polish, and Brazilian Portuguese.

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 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.

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.