Kimberly Alidio is the author of Traceable Relation (Fonograf Editions, 2025), A Teaching Summer (Spiral Editions, 2024), Teeter (Nightboat Books, 2023; winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award), and three other books.

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

She teaches writing, critical pedagogy, and postcolonial history for Bard Prison Initiative and Bard College, and has 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 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.