B. 1991
Headshot of poet Asia Calcagno
Photo by Qurissy Lopez.

Asia Calcagno is a writer and an educator from Chicago, Illinois. Her work has been featured in literary magazines and anthologies including Third Coast, Poetry magazine, the Golden Shovel Anthology (University of Arkansas Press, 2017), West Trade Review, Smartish Pace, Black Femme Collective, and Respect the Mic (Penguin, 2022). 

Calcagno has received support from the Luminarts Cultural Foundation and arts educational organization Ingenuity. She earned an MFA from Bennington College.