Marc Vincenz is British-Swiss, was born in Hong Kong, and has published several collections of poetry: The Propaganda Factory, or Speaking of Trees; Gods of a Ransacked Century, Mao's Mole, Behind the Wall at the Sugar Works (a verse novel), Additional Breathing Exercises (bilingual German- English), Beautiful Rush and This Wasted Land and its Chymical Illuminations (with Tom Bradley).He is also the translator of numerous German-language poets, including: Erika Burkart, Ernst Halter, Klaus Merz, Andreas Neeser, Markus Bundi and Alexander Xaver Gwerder. His translation of Alexander Xaver Gwerder's selected poems, Casting a Spell in Spring, is forthcoming. He has edited various anthologies and selected works of other poets, including Hugh Fox's last and posthumous collection, Primate Fox. He has received grants from the Swiss Arts Council, ProHelvetia, for his translations, and a fellowship and residency from the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB). His own work has been translated into German, Chinese, Russian, Romanian and French.