About
About
Michelle Mirabella is a Spanish-to-English literary translator dedicating much of her work to translating Latin American women writers including Catalina Infante Beovic, Belén Fernández Llanos, Arianna de Sousa-García, and Dainerys Machado Vento, among others. Shortlisted for the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award with her translation of Catalina Infante Beovic's debut novel, The Cracks We Bear, 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 Southwest Review, World Literature Today, and Latin American Literature Today, with more forthcoming. A 2026 ALTA Travel Fellow Judge and former ALTA Travel Fellow, she has been 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, Southwest Review, and World Literature Today, and is now an editor-at-large for Hopscotch Translation.
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.
Awards and Honors
Judge for the 2026 ALTA Travel Fellowship
Finalist for the 2025 Last Syllable Book Award with The Cracks We Bear (World Editions) by Catalina Infante
Selected for the Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum, 2024) anthology with "A Body" by Catalina Infante Beovic
Finalist for the Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum, 2024) anthology with "Chess Piece" by Natalia García Freire
Named a 2022 ALTA Virtual Travel Fellow
Selected as a Finalist in Columbia Journal's Spring 2022 Contest in the translation category with "A Body" by Catalina Infante Beovic
Shortlisted for the 2021-22 John Dryden Translation Competition with "An Island" by Catalina Infante Beovic
Nominated for a 2020 Puschart Prize by World Literature Today for "Ferns" by Catalina Infante Beovic