By Dainerys Machado Vento (tr. Michelle Mirabella) Columbia Journal, 2026 Part of a sequence of dream writings, “Obituary” exists in memory where dreams and reality blur. Machado Vento drops readers in, recreating this sensation of dreams lacking context, and leaves us wondering about where the…
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…
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…
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…