Kimberly Alidio is an historian, literary writer, and teacher. She has published five books of poetry and poetic prose; the most recent are Traceable Relation (Fonograf Editions) and Teeter (Nightboat Books, winner of the 2022 Nightboat Poetry Prize and the 2024 Lambda Literary Award). Her recent essays and short-form publications include: Shared Discernments, with Rebecca Teich (1080 Press), A Teaching Summer (Spiral Editions), and “On Being Porous” in e-flux. While teaching history and writing for Bard Prison Initiative and Bard’s Masters of Arts in Teaching, she regularly mentors and leads workshops in literary prose and poetry for arts organizations such as The Poetry Project, Poets House, and Kundiman. With the poet Stacy Szymaszek, 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.