Kimberly Quiogue Andrews (she/they) is a Filipinx-American poet and literary critic.

She is the author of A Brief History of Fruit (2020, University of Akron Press), winner of the Akron Prize for poetry, and The Academic Avant-Garde (2023, Johns Hopkins University Press), as well as the chapbooks BETWEEN (2018), winner of the New Women’s Voices Award, and Animals I Never Saw (2026), winner of the Flume Press Award. Her critical work has won the Ralph Cohen Prize from New Literary History and a development grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. Her writing across genres has appeared widely; to read some of it, click here.

Born in Philadelphia and raised in the Lehigh Valley, she received her BA in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University, an MFA in poetry from Penn State University, and a PhD in English Language and Literature from Yale University. She’s taught classes ranging from science fiction to food writing at Penn State, Yale, and Washington College, and she has a particular interest in teaching literary theory and similarly abstract/abstruse topics. She is currently Associate Professor of English and coordinator of creative writing at the University of Ottawa, and she also serves as an editor of the literary magazine Cherry Tree.

She would be very pleased to speak to or read for your class or organization about any of the wide range of topics covered in her research, teaching, and writing. To learn more about her work, click here. To drop a note or book a visit—either virtual or in-person—click here.

Also! It’s “kee-OH-gay.”