Hugo García Manríquez is a poet and translator from México and based in the Bay Area. Hugo is the author of several books of poetry, among others A-H: A Reading of NAFTA and more recently, Commonplace. His translations include William Carlos Williams's Paterson, George Oppen's Of Being Numerous and more recently, he edited and translated anthologies of Jack Spicer and Sean Bonney.

He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and has taught at several universities in the San Francisco Bay Area.