Luisa Caycedo-Kimura

Poet

Bloomfield, CT
Connecticut US
Email: 
luisackpoetry@icloud.com
Website: 
luisacaycedokimura.com

Author's Bio

Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a Colombian-born writer and the author of All Were Limones (The Word Works, 2025), winner of the Hillary Tham Capital Collection competition. Other honors include a John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at the Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry, and a Connecticut Office of the Arts Emerging Recognition Award. A multiple Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Net nominee, her work appears in numerous journals, anthologies, and other publications.

Education: 
Boston University MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Anderson Center Artist Residency Program
Ragdale

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Driftwood Press Anthology (Driftwood Press, 2025)
,
Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Climate Crisis (Grayson Books, 2021)
,
Sunken Garden Poetry: 1992-2011 (Wesleyan University Press, 2012)
Book:
All Were Limones (Word Works, 2025)
Journals:
Adanna
,
Caduceus
,
Cincinnati Review
,
Connecticut Review
,
Connecticut River Review
,
Crack the Spine
,
Denver Quarterly
,
Diode
,
Ellipsis
,
Four Way Review
,
Freshwater
,
Frigg Magazine
,
Jelly Bucket
,
Louisiana Literature
,
Mid-American Review
,
Nashville Review
,
Night Heron Barks
,
Noctua Review
,
On the Seawall
,
PALABRA: A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art
,
Pilgrimage
,
Pilgrimage Magazine
,
Platform Review
,
Rattle
,
RHINO
,
San Pedro River Review
,
Shenandoah
,
Tupelo Quarterly
,
West Trestle Review
Prizes won: 

Hillary Tham Collection Competition
John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship
Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship
Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship
Semifinalist, Palette Poetry Previously Published Poem Prize, 2021
Honorable Mention, RHINO Editor’s Prize, 2020

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Hispanic, Latino/Latina/Latinx
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Any, At Risk Youth, Immigration, Mental Health, Naturalists/Environmentalists, Schools, Teachers, Teenagers, Women
Fluent in: 
English, Spanish
Born in: 
Ibagué, TOL
Colombia
Tolima
Raised in: 
Queens, NY
New York
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Last update: Dec 23, 2025