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Mico Astrid (she/they) is a queer, Filipino/American interdisciplinary artist whose work wrestles with grief, migration, memory, and their intricate intersections. As an immigrant who lived undocumented in the U.S. for nearly 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 McCormack Writing Center Residency recipient, a Kenyon Review Workshop and Sewanee Writers' Conference alum, 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 a memoir titled Askal. Mico was born in the Philippines, raised throughout California, and is currently living between Seattle and Metro Manila. Open to collaborations pertaining to memory and resistance. For inquiries: [email protected] |
Published Work
2026 "Manileño, from exile", Divine Horses
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 and Residencies
2026 Sewanee Writers' Conference, Creative Nonfiction with Jaquira Díaz
2025 Ox Bow School of Art, Hold Space Residency
2025 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Creative Nonfiction with Mitchell Jackson
2024 McCormack Writing Center (formerly Tin House) Residency
2024 Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshop, Poetry with Porsha Olayiwola
2023 Undocupoets Fellowship
Readings, Panels, and Teaching
2027 Intergenerational Poetics: Approaches in Memory and Post-Memory, Poetry Society of New York, Virtual - Upcoming, Spring 2027
2026 Against Disappearance: Contemporary Migrant Poetics Workshop, Poetry Society of New York, Virtual
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
2026 Reveal, A Tempo, Seattle, WA
2023 In Between, Yun Theatre, Seattle, WA
2023 Meryenda, Have You Eaten, Seattle, WA
2020 Material Memory, Summer School Collective, Seattle, WA
2026 "Manileño, from exile", Divine Horses
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 and Residencies
2026 Sewanee Writers' Conference, Creative Nonfiction with Jaquira Díaz
2025 Ox Bow School of Art, Hold Space Residency
2025 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Creative Nonfiction with Mitchell Jackson
2024 McCormack Writing Center (formerly Tin House) Residency
2024 Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshop, Poetry with Porsha Olayiwola
2023 Undocupoets Fellowship
Readings, Panels, and Teaching
2027 Intergenerational Poetics: Approaches in Memory and Post-Memory, Poetry Society of New York, Virtual - Upcoming, Spring 2027
2026 Against Disappearance: Contemporary Migrant Poetics Workshop, Poetry Society of New York, Virtual
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
2026 Reveal, A Tempo, Seattle, WA
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 | King County Mutual Aid for Migrants
"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
- Jose Maria Sison