Michelle Mirabella
@michellemirabella.bsky.social
Translator from Spanish | www.michellemirabella.com Translator of The Cracks We Bear by Catalina Infante (World Editions, 2025)
Honored to be on the SUFTA shortlist in such illustrious company!
American Literary Translators Association@littranslate.bsky.social · last mo.🎉 ALTA is delighted to announce the 2026 shortlists for the following prizes! 🏆ALTA First Translation Prize 🏆Italian Prose in Translation Award 🏆Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize 🏆Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award, offered in partnership with the Spain-USA Foundation buff.ly/YYsqUw4
🎉 ALTA is delighted to announce the 2026 shortlists for the following prizes! 🏆ALTA First Translation Prize 🏆Italian Prose in Translation Award 🏆Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize 🏆Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award, offered in partnership with the Spain-USA Foundation buff.ly/YYsqUw4
Congratulations to this year's @littranslate.bsky.social Travel Fellows! What a joy to read your work alongside fellow judges Anushka Sen and @calvino.bsky.social.
American Literary Translators Association@littranslate.bsky.social · last mo.This year’s winners were chosen by judges Anushka Sen, @calvino.bsky.social & @michellemirabella.bsky.social. The 2026 ALTA Travel Fellowships are made possible thanks to the generous support of ALTA’s Past Presidents Council, the Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fund, and numerous individual donors.
This year’s winners were chosen by judges Anushka Sen, @calvino.bsky.social & @michellemirabella.bsky.social. The 2026 ALTA Travel Fellowships are made possible thanks to the generous support of ALTA’s Past Presidents Council, the Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fund, and numerous individual donors.
Excited to join the @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social team!
Hopscotch Translation@hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 5mo agoMeet the Hopscotch Team, Part Two! Today we'd like to introduce you to our three Editors-at-large: David Boyd, @michellemirabella.bsky.social , and Emma Wagh. HS is currently open for submissions for Fall of 2026! hopscotchtranslation.com/submissions/ #translation
Meet the Hopscotch Team, Part Two! Today we'd like to introduce you to our three Editors-at-large: David Boyd, @michellemirabella.bsky.social , and Emma Wagh. HS is currently open for submissions for Fall of 2026! hopscotchtranslation.com/submissions/ #translation
New on HS: STRANGE ENCOUNTERS AND NEEDLESS WORRIES hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/05/26/s... Translator Stine An interviews South Korean poet Yoo Heekyung, whose fifth poetry collection, WINTER NIGHT RABBIT WORRIES is now available in English from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social . #translation
Meet the HS Team (Part One)! We’d like to take the opportunity to introduce you to three of our co-founding editors: @erikberanek.bsky.social , @chrisgclarke1.bsky.social , and Samuel Martin. Don't forget, HS is open for submissions for Fall of 2026: hopscotchtranslation.com/submissions/
New on Hopscotch! Victor Breidenbach reviews Liesl Ujvary’s GOOD & SAFE (SICHER & GUT, 1977), translated from the German by Ann Cotten and Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie and published by @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social . Check it out: hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/04/28/t... #translation
Thank you to J. Walsh for this beautiful review of Catalina Infante's The Cracks We Bear in @worldlittoday.bsky.social! The Cracks We Bear is out now, in my translation, from @worldedbooks.bsky.social.
World Literature Today@worldlittoday.bsky.social · 7mo ago“The Cracks We Bear is a text that transcends its context with character, symbolism, and themes universal.” J. Walsh reviews the first novel-length work from duo Catalina Infante Beovic and translator Michelle Mirabella. @michellemirabella.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/march/c...
“The author who’s been with me most this past year is Han Kang. I identify with her sensibility and strength; they speak to me.” Catalina Infante Beovic answers 6 questions from her translator, Michelle Mirabella. @michellemirabella.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/march/6...
“As I sleep, half-awake, I dream that I crack open my thorax with a surgical crowbar.” Read Catalina Infante Beovic’s short story, “A Nostalgia for Desire,” translated by Michelle Mirabella, in our March issue. @michellemirabella.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/march/n...
So proud 🥲!
Michelle Mirabella@michellemirabella.bsky.social · 8mo agoMy author, Catalina Infante Beovic, is on the cover of @worldlittoday.bsky.social!!! Inside you’ll find a new Infante Beovic story in my translation, my Q&A with Infante Beovic, and a review of our English-language book-length debut The Cracks We Bear (@worldedbooks.bsky.social)!
My author, Catalina Infante Beovic, is on the cover of @worldlittoday.bsky.social!!! Inside you’ll find a new Infante Beovic story in my translation, my Q&A with Infante Beovic, and a review of our English-language book-length debut The Cracks We Bear (@worldedbooks.bsky.social)!
World Literature Today@worldlittoday.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe March issue is out, with Catalina Infante Beovic, Arthur Sze, Rie Qudan, Joseph O. Legaspi, and many more! Check out the table of contents here and begin reading: worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/march
Judging for the 2026 ALTA Travel Fellowships with my judgy fellows Anushka Sen and @calvino.bsky.social!
American Literary Translators Association@littranslate.bsky.social · 8mo ago🎉 ALTA is delighted to get to introduce you to the judges of the 2026 ALTA awards! Learn about the awards and our judges here: buff.ly/gUwdYHE And don't forget: Submissions to these prizes close on March 16 - just three weeks away! Learn more and submit here: buff.ly/6vmvmr8
To be in conversation with translator Edith Adams is an educational and joyful experience... I invite you in via this interview out now on @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social:
Hopscotch Translation@hopscotch-tr.bsky.social · 9mo agoNew interview on Hopscotch! In "Blooming to the Surface," Michelle Mirabella @michellemirabella.bsky.social interviews Edith Adams on her Debut Book-length Translation of Daniela Catrileo’s GUERILLA BLOOMS. Read the full interview here: hopscotchtranslation.com/2026/01/27/b... #translation #poetry
Violet and I chose these 48 books as our top feminist reads of the year for @msmagazine.com! Feat @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social @annanorth.bsky.social @kweingarten.bsky.social & more msmagazine.com/2025/12/19/b...
2025 ‘Best of the Rest’: Our Favorite Books of the Year
You’ve read the other “Best of” lists—now read the other one, for the rest of us. Here are Ms. magazine's top feminist books of 2025.
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To read the full list of WWB’s 2025 staff recommendations, head to our website or click the link below: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
The Best Books in (and on) Translation We Read in 2025 - Words Without Borders
13 staff members, 11 countries, 9 languages: The WWB team recommends our favorite books in translation from 2025.
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As 2025 comes to a close, we are excited to present some of our favorite 2025 releases in (or about) translation. From Turkey to Georgia, and China to Italy, our favorite books spanned the globe. Take a look at our picks here, or scroll the thread: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Next, from @worldedbooks.bsky.social , is THE CRACKS WE BEAR by Catalina Infante Beovic (tr. @michellemirabella.bsky.social ), Executive Director Elisabeth Jaquette’s choice: bookshop.org/a/169/978164...
The Cracks We Bear
Check out The Cracks We Bear - <b>"Chilean writer Infante's penetrating English-language debut centers on a woman coping with the challenges of new motherhood while reflecting on her late mother.…
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The feminists are heading to NWSA in Puerto Rico this month! We're reading books by these folks (and more): @lumchanmfa.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social @justjessp.bsky.social @eshanisurya.bsky.social @ayanagray.bsky.social msmagazine.com/2025/11/01/b...
November 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in November 2025.
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Just published! "Chilean writer Infante’s penetrating English-language debut centers on a woman coping with the challenges of new motherhood while reflecting on her late mother. This slim and subtle work packs a stinging punch." @publisherswkly.bsky.social @michellemirabella.bsky.social
Can’t believe it’s finally pub day for The Cracks We Bear by Catalina Infante out today from @worldedbooks.bsky.social!! Thank you to Catalina, our publisher Christine Swedowsky, my editor Shimanto Reza, and my family, friends, and colleagues for their support!
Don't miss this reading by translator @michellemirabella.bsky.social from #Chilean author Catalina Infante Beovic's debut novel THE CRACKS WE BEAR (@worldedbooks.bsky.social, 2025), an exploration of memory, trauma, and grief in a country still haunted by the Pinochet dictatorship.
Michelle Mirabella and author Catalina Infante Beovic's THE CRACKS WE BEAR (World Editions, 2025)
What opens as a story on matrescence reveals itself to be an exploration of memory, trauma, and grief—personal, familial, and national—as the protagonist, Laura, struggling in her new motherhood,…
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With less than two weeks until pub day for #TheCracksWeBear by Catalina Infante (@worldedbooks.bsky.social), it is so special to have this essay out in @worldlittoday.bsky.social, the home of our original debut together as author and translator.
World Literature Today@worldlittoday.bsky.social · 12mo agoLooking at the work of three writers, Catalina Infante Beovic finds stories that allow readers to freely exorcize the fears inherent to our times. The essay is translated by Michelle Mirabella. @michellemirabella.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/essay/w...
Want reads to finish out Aug. and Women in Translation month? Check out @michellemirabella.bsky.social's review of THE BOOK OF AFFECTS by Marília Arnaud, trans. by Ilze Duarte! Aug. may be at a close but keep opening books by women writers and translators! hopscotchtranslation.com/2025/08/26/q...
