Marc Vincenz was born in Hong Kong to Swiss-British parents during the height of the Cultural Revolution. Later, he lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. More recently, he moved to Iceland where he works as a freelance journalist, poet, translator and literary critic. He is Poetry and Non-fiction Editor for the international webzine Mad Hatters' Review and is a member of the editorial board of the Boston-based Open Letters Monthly. Recent poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Spillway, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poets & Artists, Nth Position, Möbius The Poetry Magazine, MiPOesias, Asian Cha, elimae and Inertia. Marc's poems are regularly featured on October Babies, http://octoberbabies.wordpress.com. A chapbook, Upholding Half the Sky, was published by GOSS183: Casa Menendez (2010), USA. A new collection, The Propaganda Factory, is forthcoming from Argotist ebooks, UK later this year.