Printable view of Aldo Amparán

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

El Paso, TX

Texas US

Email:

aldo.amparan@gmail.com

Bio:

Aldo Amparán is the author of Brother Sleep (Alice James Books, 2022), which won the Alice James Award in 2020, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2023. 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 work has been widely published in magazines & anthologies, including the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, The Journal, Kenyon Review Online, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, & elsewhere.

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

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Spanish

Favorite authors:

Jericho Brown, Andres Cerpa, Dennis Cooper, Louise Gluck, francine j. harris, Diana Khoi Ngyuen, Sharon Olds, Sasha Pimentel, sam sax, Natalie Scenters-Zapico Ocean Vuong

Twitter/X:

@skygoneout

Born in:

El Paso, TX

Texas

Raised in:

Ciudad Juárez, CHH

Mexico

Chihuahua

Website:

http://aldoamparan.com [2]

Prizes won:

2021, National Endowment for the Arts
2020, Alice James Award for Brother Sleep (September, 2022)

Education:

University of Texas at El Paso

Writers Retreats:

Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair

Identifies as:

Latino/Latina/Latinx

LGBTQ

Mexican American