Alexis Almeida grew up in Chicago. Her recent poems, prose, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in BOMB, Harp & Alter, The Poetry Project Newsletter, FENCE, mercury firs, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbooks Things I Have Made a Fiction (2024, winner of the Oversound chapbook contest) and I Have Never Been Able to Sing (Ugly Ducking Presse 2018), and the translator of several works, including Dalia Rosetti's Sueños y pesadillas [Dreams and Nightmares] (Les Figues, 2019), Carlos Soto Román’s 11 (UDP 2023), Fernanda Laguna’s Pañuelo de mocos (Dolce Stil Criollo 2023), and Roberta Iannamico’s Many Poems, recently out with The Song Cave. Caetano, her first full-length book, will be out with Ugly Duckling Presse in 2026. She was a Fulbright research fellow to Argentina, and has received residencies and awards from Yaddo, the Emily Harvey Foundation, Lighthouse Works, and the University of Colorado, where she did her MFA. In fall of 2022, she took part in the LMCC’s residency on Governors Island. She has lead workshops and reading groups at The New School, Ugly Duckling, and Wendy’s Subway. She teaches at the Bard Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library and Pratt Institute. She lives in Brooklyn, where she runs 18 Owls Press.