Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is a writer, visual artist, and educator who holds an MFA in creative writing from Boston University and teaches at Trinity College and the University of Hartford. His poetry draws on Japanese American heritage, family memory, and intergenerational loss, moving between intimate elegy and ekphrastic exploration. His chapbook Ubasute (Slapering Hol Press, 2021) won the 2020 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition, tracing his parents' experiences of World War II Japanese internment and the Tokyo firebombings. His debut full-length collection, Common Grace (Beacon Press, 2022), expands that lyric vision across cultures, generations, and artistic forms. His honors include a MacDowell Fellowship, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry, a Connecticut Office of the Arts Artist Fellowship, and a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Literature.