MARIANO ZARO is the author of five previous books of poetry, most recently Padre Tierra (Olifante, Zaragoza, Spain). His poems are included in anthologies and literary journals in the USA, Mexico and Spain. He has translated into Spanish the American poets Philomene Long, Tony Barnstone and Sholeh Wolpé. In 2018, he received the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Fiction Prize. Zaro hosts a series of video-interviews with prominent poets as part of the literary project Poetry.LA. He is a professor of Spanish at Rio Hondo Community College (Whittier, CA).