Mark Vincenz is a poet, fiction writer, translator, editor, musician, and artist. He has published over 40 books of poetry, fiction, and translation. His more recent collections include "The Pearl Diver of Irunmany", "A Splash of Cave Paint", "The King of Prussia is Drunk on Stars", and "Spells for the Wicked". His translation of Klaus Merz's selected poems, "An Audible Blue", won the 2023 Massachusetts Book Award for Translation. He is publisher and editor of MadHat Press and publisher of "New American Writing".