Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is a writer and visual artist. He is the author of the full-length poetry collection Common Grace (Beacon Press, 2022), the poetry chapbook Ubasute (Slapering Hol Press, 2021), and the author and illustrator of the non-fiction book Text, Don’t Call: An Illustrated Guide to the Introverted Life (TarcherPerigee, 2017). 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 been featured in the anthologies Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Anthology: In the Time of Covid (Nixes Mate Review, 2021), Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis (Grayson Books, 2021), the podcast Poetry Unbound, as well as in numerous literary journals, including Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Plume Poetry, Pirene’s Fountain, Salamander, and DMQ Review.

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