Jake Syersak is the author of the poetry books Yield Architecture and Mantic Compost. He is also the translator of several works by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, most recently Proximal Morocco—. His translation of Tahar Ben Jelloun's collected early poetry, Sun Scars, is forthcoming in 2025. His work has received grants from The National Endowment of the Arts and PEN/Heim. He currently lives in Olympia, WA.