Mario Chard

Mario Chard

Blog URL: https://mappingliteraryutah.org/utah-writers/mario-chard

   Ogden, UT

Mario Chard was born in Ogden, Utah, and raised in Morgan Valley. The son of an Argentine immigrant mother and an American father, he was educated at Weber State University (BA) and Purdue University (MFA). 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), selected by Robert Pinsky for the 2016 Dorset Prize, named a 2018 Notable Debut 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 in the The New Yorker, Poetry, Boston Review, and elsewhere, and have been honored with various awards, including the “Discovery” Poetry Prize. He currently teaches in Atlanta, Georgia, where he lives with his wife and sons.