Mariano Zaro has authored six poetry collections including Decoding Sparrows (What Books, 2019), Padre Tierra (Olifante Ediciones de Poesía, 2019), and Tres letras/Three Letters (Editorial Morsa, 2013). His work is included in the anthologies Monster Verse (Penguin Random House, 2015), Wide Awake (Beyond Baroque, 2015), The Coiled Serpent (Tía Chucha Press, 2016) as well as in magazines in Spain, Mexico and the U.S. He has translated into Spanish poetry by Philomene Long, Tony Barnstone and Sholeh Wolpé. Born in Spain, he earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Granada and is currently a professor of Spanish at Rio Hondo Community College. He hosted the Poetry.LA Interview Series from 2013 to 2022.