My North County (Akron Poetry)

About the Author

Alfredo Aguilar is the author of On This Side of the Desert (Kent State University Press, 2020), winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. He earned his MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and has received support from MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts. He was a 2026 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out poetry fellow. His work has appeared in The Yale Review, Waxwing, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Born and raised in North County, San Diego, he lives in Central Texas.