Julio Marzán is a writer of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. He has published two books of poetry, one in English, Translations without Originals (I. Reed Books), and one in Spanish Puerta de Tierra (University of Puerto Rico Press), and a novella-in-stories, The Bonjour Gene (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005). From 2007 until 2010 he served as the fourth Poet Laureate of Queens, NYC.