Mariano Zaro is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently The Weight of Sound (Walton Well Press), Decoding Sparrows (What Books Press) and Padre Tierra (Olifante, Zaragoza, Spain). His translations include Buda en llamas by Tony Barnstone and Cómo escribir una canción de amor by Sholeh Wolpé. His poems have been included in the anthologies Monster Verse (Penguin Random House), Poetry Goes to the Movies (Beyond Baroque Books), The Coiled Serpent (Tía Chucha Press), Wide Awake (Beyond Baroque Books) and in several magazines in Mexico, Spain and the United States. With the Venice Collective he has published two poetry volumes: Angle of Reflection and A Shared Condition.

Zaro’s short stories have appeared in Portland Review, Pinyon, Baltimore Review and The Louisville Review. He is the winner of the 2004 Roanoke Review Short Fiction Prize and the 2018 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Short Fiction Prize.

Mariano Zaro earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Granada (Spain) and a Master’s in Literature from the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He is a professor of Spanish at Río Hondo Community College (Whittier, California).

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Mariano Zaro es autor de siete libros de poesía; los más recientes The Weight of Sound (Walton Well Press), Decoding Sparrows (What Books Press) y Padre Tierra (Olifante, Zaragoza, Spain. Entre sus traducciones destacan Buda en llamas de Tony Barnstone y Cómo escribir una canción de amor de Sholeh Wolpé. Sus poemas han sido incluidos en las antologías Monster Verse (Penguin Random House), Poetry Goes to the Movies (Beyond Baroque Books), The Coiled Serpent (Tía Chucha Press), Wide Awake (Beyond Baroque Books) y en revistas de México, España y Estados Unidos. Con el grupo literario Venice Collective ha publicado dos volúmenes de poesía: Angle of Reflection y A Shared Condition.

Sus cuentos han aparecido en Portland Review, Pinyon, Baltimore Review y The Louisville Review. Ha ganado los premios de relato breve The Roanoke Review Short Fiction Prize (2004) y The Martha’s Vineyard Creative Writing Institute Short Fiction Prize (2018).

Mariano Zaro es doctor en Lingüística (Universidad de Granada) y licenciado en Filología Hispánica (Universidad de Zaragoza). En la actualidad es profesor de español en Río Hondo Community College (Whittier, California).