Mark Statman has written fourteen books; his most recent is the book of poems, Volverse/Volver (Lavender Ink, 2025) and the chapbook Chicatanas (Subpress, 2023, published simultaneously in English and in Spanish with a translation by Efraín Velasco). Statman’s other poetry collections include  Hechizo (Lavender Ink, 2022), Exile Home (Lavender Ink, 2019), That Train Again (Lavender Ink, 2015), A Map of the Winds (Lavender Ink, 2013) and Tourist at a Miracle (Hanging Loose, 2010). His translations include Never Made in America: Selected Poetry of Martín Barea Mattos (Lavender Ink/diálogos, 2017), as well as Black Tulips: The Selected Poems of José María Hinojosa (University of New Orleans Press, 2012), the first English language translation of the significant poet of Spain’s Generation of 1927, and, with Pablo Medina, a translation of Federico García Lorca's Poet in New York (Grove 2008). Statman’s poetry, essays, and translations have appeared in over 25 anthologies, as well as such publications as New American Writing, Tin House, Hanging Loose, Xavier Review, Ping Pong, and American Poetry Review. A recipient of awards from the NEA and the National Writers Project, he is Emeritus Professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School, lives in San Pedro Ixtlahuaca and Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, MX, and is a dual national of Mexico and the United States.