Aaron Caycedo-Kimura
@AaronCKAaron Caycedo-Kimura is the author of Common Grace (Beacon Press, 2022) and Ubasute (Slapering Hol Press, 2021). His honors include a MacDowell Fellowship, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry, a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Literature, and nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets anthologies. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Plume Poetry, Poetry Daily, Shenandoah, Pirene’s Fountain, Salamander, Cave Wall, and elsewhere. Aaron earned his MFA in creative writing from Boston University.
Updated January 2024
Stories from This Author
The Real Lives of Origami Figures
May 7, 2014 • Aaron Caycedo-Kimura
It’s a thought that came to me while my wife and I were having breakfast at a diner recently—I took the paper band that held my napkin, fork, and knife together, and folded it into an origami figure. Putting it down next to my wife’s unfolded paper, I thought it looked like they were conversing. *This cartoon was originally published on INFJoe on August 17, 2013.
