Born in Texas and raised in Chad, Aaron Brown is the author of the poetry collection, Acacia Road, winner of the 2016 Gerald Cable Book Award (Silverfish Review Press) and the poetry collection Call Me Exile (SFASU Press, 2022) and memoir Less Than What You Once Were (Unsolicited Press, 2022). He has been published in World Literature Today, Tupelo Quarterly, Waxwing, Cimarron Review, and Transition, among others, and he has served as a contributing editor for Windhover. Brown now lives in Texas, where he is an associate professor of English and directs the writing center at LeTourneau University. He holds an MFA from the University of Maryland.