Ian Lockaby is a poet, translator, and editor of the journal mercury firs. He is the author of the chapbook A Seam of Electricity, and his poetry has been published in journals including Fence, Bennington Review, Poetry Northwest, Ecotone, Volt, and Denver Quarterly. His translations of Latin American poetry have been published in Black Warrior Review, Circumference, Washington Square Review, and others. For many years he lived in and around Olympia, WA, where he worked on vegetable farms, and he now lives in New Orleans.