Mark Eisner has spent most of the past two decades working on projects related to Pablo Neruda. He is the author of the biography Neruda: The Poet's Calling (Ecco, 2018), described by Library Journal as "a definitive biography, an instant classic," and is the editor and co-translator of The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (City Lights, 2004). He is producing a documentary on Neruda. An initial version, narrated by Isabel Allende, won the Latin American Studies Association Award of Merit in Film.

Eisner heads Red Poppy, a nonprofit focused on promoting socially conscious Latin American poetry, and recently coedited a multilingual anthology of Latin American “Poetry in Resistance” created by the organization. He is the translator of Tina Escaja’s book-length poem “Caída Libre / Free Fall”  (Fomite Press, 2015). Eisner earned a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and an MA in Latin American Studies from Stanford University, where he subsequently served as a visiting scholar in poetry.