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Michelle's translation of The Cracks We Bear by Chilean author Catalina Infante has won the 2026 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award. Michelle accepted the award during a ceremony at the American Literary Translators Association annual conference in Portland, Oregon. The Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA) recognizes…
Michelle's translation of The Cracks We Bear by Catalina Infante was shortlisted for the 2026 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award. The Award recognizes translations into English of literary prose works written originally by authors of Spanish (Spain) nationality. What the judges had to say: "An English-language debut…
On October 22, 2026, Michelle will be reading from her translation of Catalina Infante's "A Body" as part of the Best Literary Translations offsite reading during the American Literary Translators Association annual conference, alongside eleven fellow translators. "A Body" is one of eight stories from Infante's…
By Dainerys Machado Vento (tr. Michelle Mirabella) Columbia Journal, 2026 Part of a sequence of dream writings, “Obituary” exists in memory where dreams and reality blur. Machado Vento drops readers in, recreating this sensation of dreams lacking context, and leaves us wondering about where the…