Alejandro Lucero is a poet, essayist, editor, and educator, originally from Sapello, New Mexico. He currently lives with his partner, Karen, in Baltimore, Maryland, where he earned an MFA in Poetry in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and where he also served as a Salter Lecturer and as a senior editor of The Hopkins Review. Before moving to Baltimore, Alejandro lived in Denver, Colorado, where he earned a BA in English at the University of Colorado-Denver and served as a senior editor of Copper Nickel, as well as an AA in Creative Writing from Arapahoe Community College, where he also served as Poetry Editor for Progenitor: Art & Literary Journal. His debut full-length collection, At the Bottom of the Sea with One Light, was selected by Rigoberto González as the winner of the 25th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize (Boa Editions, 2027), and his chapbook, Sapello Son, was named the Editors’ Selection for the Frost Place Competition (Bull City Press, 2024). Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, his work appears in Best New Poets 2023 & 2025, Cincinnati Review, Ecotone, Gulf Coast, Missouri Review, Poetry Daily, Southern Review, and many other journals and anthologies.