About

Aldo Amparán is the author of The House Has Teeth (Alice James Books, 2026), and Brother Sleep (2022), winner of the Alice James Award and a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts & CantoMundo.

Amparán’s poetry has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, New England Review, & the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, among other literary journals. Their work has also been anthologized in Best New Poets & Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology.

Born & raised in the border cities of El Paso, TX, & Ciudad Juárez, CHIH, Amparán earned their MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso.