Aldo Amparán is the author of Brother Sleep (Alice James Books, 2022), winner of the Alice James Award and a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Their second book, The House Has Teeth, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in September 2026. 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, Gulf Coast, New England Review, AGNI, & 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, Ampará
