Self-Portrait of the Stolen Body

Aldo Amparán is a queer, Mexican American poet from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. He is the author of Brother Sleep (Alice James, forthcoming 2022), winner of the Alice James Award. A CantoMundo Fellow, he has published poems in Gulf Coast, The Journal, Kenyon Review Online, AGNI, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. (updated 10/2020)