Kemi Alabi is the author of Against Heaven (Graywolf Press, 2022), winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, and coeditor of The Echoing Ida Collection (Feminist Press, 2021). Alabi‘s work appears in The Atlantic, The Nation, Poetry, Boston Review, and has been supported through fellowships from Civitella Ranieri, MacDowell, Tin House, and Pink Door. Born in Wisconsin on a Sunday in July, they now live in Chicago, IL.