Parra is an American poet and translator who was born in Cambridge, MA in 1970. His translations include The Conspiracy, by Israel Center (Phoneme Media, 2017), Selected Works by Jose Antonio Ramos Sucre, (Noemi Press, 2016), and Air on the Air, Selected Poems of Juan Sanchez Pealed, (Black Square Editions, 2016). His own work is published in Phantasmal Repeats (Petrichord Books, 2009) and Caracas Notebook (act Gist Press, 2006).