Alexis Almeida grew up in Chicago. She is the author of the chapbooks I Have Never Been Able to Sing (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), and things Things I Have Made a Fiction (Oversound, 2023), and most recently the translator of Dalia Rosetti’s Dreams and Nightmares (Les Figues, 2019), and a co-translator of Carlos Soto Román’s 11, recently out with Ugly Duckling Presse. Her translation of Roberta Iannamico’s Many Poems is forthcoming from The Song Cave in 2024, and her collection, Caetano, is forthcoming in 2025 with The Elephants. She teaches at the Bard Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library, and edits 18 Owls Press.