Marc Vincenz is a multi-lingual poet, fiction writer, translator, editor, musician, and artist. He has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and translation. His recent poetry collections include The Pearl Diver of Irunmani, Spells for the Wicked, All the Tricks of Language, and IRØNCLAD.  

Marc’s translation of prize-winning Swiss poet and novelist Klaus Merz’ selected poems, An Audible Blue, received the 2023 Massachusetts Book Prize for Translated Literature. He translates from the German, Romanian, French and Spanish. His most recent books of translation are In the House, Still Light, also by Klaus Merz, and Mother’s Letters: Pure Caviar, the selected poems of the Romanian poet, Ion Monoran.

He is publisher and editor of MadHat Press and publisher of the essential New American Writing, and lives on a farm in Western Massachusetts where there are more spiny-nosed voles, tufted grey-buckle hares and Amoeba scintilla than bi-pedal earthlings.