Aldo Amparán is the author of Brother Sleep (Alice James Books, 2022), which won the Alice James Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts & CantoMundo. Amparán's work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, The Georgia Review, New England Review,Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, & elsewhere.

"This book extends the deepest coves of my heart to places of heartbreak and hope I didn’t know were there.Against brutish weight and erasure, where one’s body in country or alongside another is politicized by its place, Aldo Amparán’s poetry stuns with its grace. How to dream a touch from violence the body knows? Tender territory and language back from sharded throat? Elegant and enduring, abounding in retrieval and revelation, this book is alive with the totality of feeling, sharp with the splendor of true personhood."
—Sasha Roque Pimentel

"There is something about intimacy and the way it radiates within a word. In The House Has Teeth, Aldo Amparán shows us through lyric and line, screens and ghosts, body and breath. If the walls in these stanzas could talk, we would only hear the quiet force of form and white space. These poems reminded me about my own body and the unique circumstances of being alive: to desire is to break yourself against oceans, to love is to notice the snow outside, to grieve is to fill a 'room with a river.'"
—Jake Skeets