Kimberly Alidio

Kimberly Alidio is a poet, essayist, historian, and teacher. Recent publications include “On Being Porous” in e-flux journal; “The Girls and a Joke”: 1080 Press Newsletter #144; 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 of poetry—why letter ellipses,  : once teeth bones coral : , and after projects the resound—, and four  chapbooks—ROOM TONE, a cell of falls, shaping and edging, and solitude being alien. A long poem is forthcoming in Tripwire, and her fifth book, Traceable Relation, is forthcoming in Fall 2025. Her criticism is published in Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of the Nation and Diaspora (New York University Press), Poetry Foundation, American Quarterly, Social Text, Journal of American Ethnic History, and the Journal of American History. She is currently writing poetic-essay criticism on Filipino diasporic, postcolonial arts, theory, and aesthetics. She holds a B.A. from Oberlin College (History/ English double major, gender studies minor); a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (History, with a Certificate in Gender Studies); and a M.F.A. from University of Arizona (Poetry). She has held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, a Spencer Foundation/ National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Kundiman Fellowship, Naropa Summer Writing Program’s Zora Neale Hurston Scholarship, and an Assistant Professorship of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Texas. She has been Social Studies/ History faculty at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas; Writing Faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts; workshop faculty for The Poetry Project, Kundiman and the Naropa Summer Writing Program; and mentor for The Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship. She currently teaches language studies, essay 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 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.