Mico Astrid (she/they) is a queer, Filipino/American interdisciplinary artist whose work explores diasporic identity, lived experience, and memory. As an immigrant who lived undocumented in the U.S. for twenty years, their practice centers the illumination of stark realities under oppressive states and ultimately works towards a greater collective understanding of injustices embedded in current systems.

Mico is a Tin House Residency recipient, a Kenyon Review Workshop alumni, and an Undocupoets fellow. Their work can be found in Michigan Quarterly Review, Here to Stay (HarperCollins 2024), and elsewhere. They are currently working on Askal, their debut memoir.

Mico was born in the Philippines, raised throughout California, and currently lives in Seattle, WA: unceded Duwamish land. 

​Open to collaborations pertaining to memory and resistance. For inquiries: [email protected]
Published Work
2025     "Kinship", Memory and Migrations: Spring 2025 Issue, Michigan Quarterly Review
2025     "For Tatay (1942-1996)" and "Old dog new trick", Washington Queer Poetry Anthology
2024     "In the Corner of a Small World" and "Some responses", Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora from HarperCollins
2021     "Manila", Opal Literary Magazine
2020     "What we have left" and "Servant", The Quarterless Review

Awards
2025     Ox-Bow Hold Space Residency
2025     Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Scholar
2024     Tin House Residency
2023     Undocupoets Fellowship

Readings/Panels
2025     Guest Lecture, Cornell University - Virtual
2025     Student Showcase, Kenyon Review Workshop - Gambier, OH
2024     Residency Reading, Tin House Books - Portland, OR
2024     Student Showcase, Fine Arts Work Center - Provincetown, MA
2023     Artist Panel, Meryenda, Have You Eaten - Seattle, WA
2023     Kultura, Golden Years Exhibit, Malaya Movement - Seattle, WA

Group Exhibitions
2023     In Between, Yun Theatre - Seattle, WA 
2023     Meryenda, Have You Eaten - Seattle, WA
2020     Material Memory, Summer School Collective - Seattle, WA

Calls for community support: Real Rent to the Duwamish Tribe | Gaza Funds
"We must always remember that the people will not be aroused and mobilized unless the literary and artistic work is drawn from their lives, particularly from their needs and aspirations. We bring to a higher plane the actions and thinking of the revolutionary masses so as to inspire them to destroy and triumph over the enemy."
- Jose Maria Sison