Andrés Cerpa is the author of two books of poetry,  Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy (2019) and The Vault (2021), which was longlisted for a National Book Award and celebrated as one of the best poetry books of 2021 by The New York Times. A recipient of a McDowell fellowship, his writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The Rumpus, + elsewhere. 

"Andrés Cerpa is that rarest of gifts: a poet who knows how to sing and tell a story, how to risk fragmentation and dare to be whole. The Palace is him at the height of his powers. Read this book, then read it again, and find in it the transcendence that can only come from going deep into the common, the real, the texture of being alive, in time."
—Joseph Fasano