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Twilight Showing: Four Horror Shorts

By John Better Armella (tr. George Henson and Michelle Mirabella) Southwest Review, 2024 These pieces originally appeared in Better's Fantasmata (Lugar Común) and Limbo (Seix Barral)—four flash fictions fit to be adapted as screenplay shorts. The novella Limbo, also cotranslated by Mirabella and Henson, is seeking…

Fire Trances

by Iliana Vargas (tr. Lena Greenberg and Michelle Mirabella) Your Impossible Voice, 2023 “Fire Trances” examines themes of religion, (in)sanity, language, and the role of women through a surreal lens, referencing the oneiric musings of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and her Primero Sueño,…

Daughters of Latin America

Cover art showing two women looking at each other with a matriarch above

Michelle has three translations featured in this anthology: “Streets” by Granta-recognized Peruvian author Miluska Benavides, “Crossing” by Ecuadorian author Natalia García Freire, and “Green Gold, Blue Gold” by Chilean author Catalina Infante Beovic.

A Body

by Catalina Infante Beovic (tr. Michelle Mirabella) Columbia Journal, 2022 A commentary on abandonment and how forgiveness cannot be given to something you hardly know. This story is from Infante Beovic’s 2018 collection Todas somos una misma sombra (We Women Are All One Shadow). Finalist…