Gaspar OrozcoGaspar Orozco was born in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1971. He was a member of the punk rock band Revolución X in the 1990s and codirector of the 2011 documentary film Subterranians: Mexican Norteña Music in New York. His books of poetry include Abrir fuego(Mexico City: Tierra Adentro, 2000), El silencio de lo que cae (Mexico City: Programa Editorial de la Coordinación de Humanidades, UNAM, 2000), Notas del país de Z (bilingual, translation by Mark Weiss) (Chihuahua: Uni-versidad Autónoma de Chuihuahua, 2009), Astrodiario (El Paso: Bagatela, 2010), Autocinema (Mexico City: Conaculta 2010), Plegarias a la Reina Mosca (Monterrey: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 2011), and, in collaboration with H.U. Lian, Game of Mirrors, an interactive e-book with English and Chinese translations. A bilingual U.S. edition of Autocinema, translated by Mark Weiss, was published by Chax Press in 2015. A career diplomat, he has served in New York, and at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, where he is currently Consul for Community Affairs. Read More Read Less