Mario Chard is a poet, critic, translator, and teacher. Born in Morgan Valley, Utah, to an Argentine immigrant mother and an American father, he is a graduate of Weber State University (B.A.) and later Purdue University (M.F.A.), serving there as the poetry editor of Sycamore Review.

He is the author of Land of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2018), selected by Robert Pinsky for the 2016 Dorset Prize, named one of the top ten debut poetry books of 2018 by Poets & Writers Magazine, and chosen as the winner of the 2019 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry. 

His poems and essays have appeared widely in journals and magazines, including The Nation, The New Yorker, POETRY, among others, and his honors include a 92NY Discovery Poetry Prize, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. An inaugural fellow for the U.S. Ledbury Poetry Critics, he lives in northern Utah.