Julio Marzán was born in 1946 in Santurce, Puerto Rico, and grew up in New York. He has published the poetry books Translations without Originals (Ishmael Reed Books, 1986) and Puerta de Tierra (U. of Puerto Rico Press, 1998), and he is editor and translator of Inventing a Word: Twentieth-Century Puerto Rican Poetry (Columbia University Press, 1980) and Luis Palés Matos: Selected Poems/Poesía Selecta (Arte Público Press, 2000). In 1994 he published the landmark The Spanish American Roots of William Carlos Williams (U. Texas Pr.). From 2004-2007 he was Poet Laureate of Queens, N.Y.
