Born in San Francisco, California, Aragón's parents migrated from Nicaragua in the 1950s.

[2] Aragón directs Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

[4] Aragón's books include Puerta del Sol (2005), and Glow of Our Sweat (2010).

He edited the groundbreaking anthology The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (2007).

[5] Aragón is the winner of an Academy of American Poets College Prize and the 2010 Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Award in Literary Arts or Publications from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education.