Alida Dean‘s poems and short stories have recently appeared in The Forge, Chicago Quarterly Review and SmokeLong Quarterly, among other venues. Her unpublished novel I Don’t Think I’ll Miss You Much was a Finalist for the 2025 Rising Writer Prize from Autumn House Press, and she was a 2025 fellow in poetry at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Alida teaches writing workshops through the nonprofit Literary Cleveland and at Tompkins Cortland Community College. She lives in Ithaca, New York with her partner and daughter.
Alida Dean 