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…
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…