Mark Weiss is an author, editor, and translator. He edited and was principle translator of two bilingual anthologies, ACROSS THE LINE / AL OTRO LADO: THE POETRY OF BAJA CALIFORNIA (Junction Press, 2002) and The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry. Among his translations are Gaspar Orozco's BOOK OF THE PEONY (Shearsman Books, 2017), AUTOCINEMA (Chax Press, 2016), STET: SELECTED POEMS OF JOSÉ KOZER (Junction Press, 2006), Gaspar Orozco's Notas del país de Z, and Virgilio Piñera's La isla en peso / The Whole Island.