Aldo Amparán is a queer, Mexican American poet from the sister cities of El Paso, TX, & Ciudad Juárez, CHIH. His debut collection of poems, Brother Sleep, was the winner of the 2020 Alice James Award & is forthcoming in 2022. A CantoMundo Fellow, his work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net, & appears in Gulf Coast, The Journal, Kenyon Review Online, Poetry Northwest, & elsewhere.