Luisa Caycedo-Kimura

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. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Net nominee, her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, Rattle, Mid-American Review, RHINO, Diode, Tupelo Quarterly, Nashville Review, The Night Heron Barks, On the Seawall, and elsewhere. She is a former editor of Connecticut River Review, the founding chair of Connecticut Poetry Society’s conneCTions: a Reading and Workshop Series, and a member of the Hill-Stead Museum’s Poetry Advisory Committee. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Boston University.