Overview
Set in the borderlands of North County, San Diego, My North County examines the lasting consequences of decades of militarized border policy and the ways those policies shape the lives of the people who call the region home. These poems are meditations on friendship, artistic community, and the transformative possibilities of writing and sharing poetry. In My North County, Alfredo Aguilar holds poetry up to the light to ask us what it can—and cannot—do in the face of political realities, revealing a moving testament to the sustaining power of friendship, art, and language.Author Bio
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.
