Alexis Almeida is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is the author of I Have Never Been Able to Sing (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), and most recently the translator of Dalia Rosetti's Dreams and Nightmares (Les Figues, 2018), and Single Mother (Spork, 2019). She earned her MFA from the University of Colorado, and recently lived in Argentina on a Fulbright fellowship, where she was compiling and translating an anthology of contemporary poets. She currently teaches writing at the Bard microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library.