It is June 2018-

Alfredo Aguilar is the author of On This Side of the Desert (Kent State University Press, 2020), selected by Natalie Diaz for the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. He is a past winner of 92NY’s Discovery Poetry Contest, and his work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Waxwing, and Tupelo Quarterly. Originally from North County San Diego, he currently resides in Central Texas, where he is a fellow at The Michener Center for Writers.