Mario Chard is a poet, critic, and teacher. Born in Morgan Valley, Utah, to an Argentine immigrant mother and an American father, he attended Weber State University (B.A.) and Purdue University (M.F.A.). From 2011-2013, he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.

He is the author of Land of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2018), winner of the Dorset Prize and the Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry.

His work has appeared widely in journals and magazines, including The Nation, The New Yorker, Poetry, among others, and his honors include the “Discovery” Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. An inaugural fellow for the U.S. Ledbury Poetry Critics, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.