About the Poets:
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is a writer and visual artist. He is the author of two poetry books: the full-length collection Common Grace (Beacon Press, 2022) and Ubasute, winner of the 2020 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. His honors include a MacDowell Stanford Calderwood Fellowship, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry, a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Literature, and nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets anthologies. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Cincinnati Review, RHINO, Plume Poetry, Poetry Daily, Shenandoah, Pirene’s Fountain, Salamander, Cave Wall, and elsewhere. Aaron earned his MFA in creative writing from Boston University.
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a Colombian-born writer, translator, educator, and former attorney. Her honors include a Connecticut Office of the Arts Emerging Recognition Award, a John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at The Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale, and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry (You may read about her adventures as a Global Fellow in her Alive in Spain travel blog). Luisa holds an MFA from Boston University. A three time Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Net nominee, her poems appear or are forthcoming in Four Way Review, Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, Rattle, Diode, RHINO, Mid-American Review, Louisiana Literature, Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis, Driftwood Press Anthology, and elsewhere. She is a former co-Editor of Connecticut River Review, the founding chair of Connecticut Poetry Society’s conneCTions reading and workshop series, a member of the Hill-Stead Museum’s Poetry Advisory Committee, and co-editor of Slapering Hol Press.
