Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is a writer and visual artist. He is the author of two poetry collections: the full-length collection Common Grace (Beacon Press, 2022) and Ubasute, which won the 2020 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. He is also the author and illustrator of Text, Don’t Call: An Illustrated Guide to the Introverted Life (TarcherPerigee, 2017).
His honors include 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, Plume Poetry, Poetry Daily, RHINO, Pirene’s Fountain, Cave Wall, and elsewhere.
While at MacDowell, he worked on poems for his second full-length collection, as well as a two chapbooks, and the poetry anthology From the Belly: Poets Respond to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons Volume II (The Word Works, forthcoming in 2024). Also, a visual artist, he painted scenes found in MacDowell and Peterborough.
