Geoffrey Brock is the author of Weighing Light: Poems, the editor of The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry, and the translator of numerous volumes from the Italian. His poems and translations have appeared in journals including Poetry, Paris Review, and The New Yorker, and in anthologies including Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Public Library's Cullman Center, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford from 2002–2004.

Brock's translations include Cesare Pavese’s Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950, Roberto Calasso’s K., and Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. His translations have received many awards, including Poetry magazine's John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize, the ATA's Lewis Galantière Award, the PEN Center USA Translation Award, the MLA’s Lois Roth Award, and the Academy of American Poets' Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship. He teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas.