Andrés Cerpa is the author of three books of poetry, Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy (2019), The Vault (2021), which was celebrated as one of the best poetry books of 2021 by The New York Times, and The Palace (2026) which is forthcoming from Alice James Books. A recipient of  a McDowell fellowship, his writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, The Kenyon Review, The Nation + elsewhere. Andrés holds degrees from the University of Delaware and Rutgers University Newark. He is an educator and faculty member of the Randolph MFA Program.