About me

Michelle Mirabella is a Spanish to English literary translator whose translation of Catalina Infante Beovic’s debut novel, The Cracks We Bear, is forthcoming in fall 2025 with World Editions. Her work also appears in the anthologies Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2023) and Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum, 2024), as well as in venues such as The Arkansas International, Southwest Review, Nimrod International Journal, World Literature Today, and Latin American Literature Today. In recognition of her translation work, she has been named a 2022 ALTA Travel Fellow, shortlisted for the 2021-22 John Dryden Translation Competition, selected as a finalist in Columbia Journal‘s 2022 Spring Contest, and nominated by World Literature Today for a Pushcart Prize in 2020. Michelle has also published her original writing in Hopscotch Translation and World Literature Today.

She holds an M.A. in Translation and Interpretation (Spa-Eng) from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, an M.A. in Higher Education Administration from NYU, and a B.A. in Professional Writing (English) from Carnegie Mellon University. Michelle is an alumna of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre and the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference.

In addition to literary translation, Michelle offers translation and editing services and works with CAT tools including Trados, Wordfast, and MemoQ. Michelle is the CEO and Founder of Mirabella Language Studio, LLC.