Art Beck is a poet, essayist, and translator whose work has been published since the early 1970s. Translations of Rilke's poems were published in Etudes: A Rilke Recital (2020), which was a finalist for the 2021 Northern California Book Awards. His Opera Omnia Or, a Duet for Sitar and Trombone, versions of the sixth-century North African Roman poet Luxorius won the 2013 Northern California Book Award for translated poetry. Mea Roma (Shearsman Books, 2018), a meditative sampling of Martial's epigrams received an Honorable Mention in the ALTA 2018 Cliff Becker Prize. In 2022, his selected poems Angel Rain was published by Shanti Books. His articles on the translator's art have appeared in Jacket2, Your Impossible Voice, The Journal of Poetics Research, PN Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He makes his home in San Francisco.
