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 I Have Made a Fiction (Oversound, 2023), and most recently the translator of Roberta Iannamico's Many Poems, which is just out from The Song Cave. Her first full-length collection, Caetano, is forthcoming in 2026. She teaches at the Bard Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library and edits 18 Owls Press.