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Interview on The Three Percent Podcast

On October 16, 2025, Michelle was interviewed alongside her publisher, Christine Swedowsky, by Chad Post on The Three Percent Podcast, "a weekly(ish) conversation about new books, the publishing scene, international literature in translation, and many other random rants and raves." The episode featured Michelle speaking…

A Nostalgia For Desire

Catalina Infante on the cover of World Literature Today

By Catalina Infante Beovic (tr. Michelle Mirabella) World Literature Today, 2026 Employing extended apostrophe and dual timelines, Infante explores what happens to desire, sexuality, and women’s relationship with their bodies in the context of family life, in the wake of marriage and raising children. The…

An Island

Butterfly on folded paper

By Catalina Infante Beovic (tr. Michelle Mirabella) Nimrod International Journal, 2024 An epistolary narrative employing extended apostrophe as a literary device. The protagonist writes from her southern refuge in Chiloé, an archipelago where, in Chile, the continent is said to end and break off into…

Best Literary Translations 2024

Green and blue painted cover art

Michelle's translation of “A Body” by Chilean author Catalina Infante Beovic, originally published in Columbia Journal, is featured in this anthology. Her translation of “Chess Piece” by Ecuadorian author Natalia García Freire, originally published in The Arkansas International, is recognized on the longlist.