Kimberly Alidio is a poet, essayist, historian, and teacher. Recent publications include a critical poetics essay in e-flux journal; “The Girls and a Joke”: 1080 Press Newsletter #144; ROOM TONE: Belladonna* Chaplet #297; and Teeter, winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. She is the author of three additional books, and a fifth is forthcoming in Fall 2025. She teaches essay writing, critical pedagogy, and postcolonial history for various programs at Bard College, and serves as a mentor for The Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship. She lives on Munsee-Mohican and Lenape lands along the Mahicannituck River, otherwise known as New York’s Hudson Valley, and supports collective resistance, collective refusal, and collective flourishing to dismantle settler colonialism everywhere.
