Kimberly Alidio

Kimberly Alidio, a poet, essayist, historian, and teacher, is the author of five poetry collections: Traceable Relation (Fonograf Editions, 2025); Teeter (Nightboat Books, 2023), winner of both the Nightboat Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry; why letter ellipses (selva oscura, 2020); : once teeth bones coral : (Belladonna*, 2020), a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award; and after projects the resound (Black Radish, 2016). Essays have appeared in e-flux, Poetry Foundation, American Quarterly, Social Text, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of American History, and the anthology, Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of the Nation and Diaspora (New York University Press, 2016). She has been awarded fellowships, prizes, and artist residencies from the University of Arizona’s MFA Program, Kundiman, Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, the Center for Art and Thought, the University of Illinois’ Asian American Studies Program, and the Spencer Foundation/ National Academy of Education. She has taught writing, critical pedagogy, and postcolonial history for the Bard Prison Initiative, Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking, and Bard’s Masters of Art in Teaching. She has also been a mentor for The Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship; Writing Faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts; Poetry Workshop Faculty for Kundiman and Naropa’s Summer Writing Program; Social Studies/ History faculty at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas; and Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Texas. She has a M.F.A. from University of Arizona (Poetry); a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (History, with a Certificate in Gender Studies); and a B.A. from Oberlin College (History/ English double major, gender studies minor). She lives on Munsee-Mohican 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.