Michelle Gil-Montero

Michelle Gil-Montero is translator of contemporary Latin American poetry, hybrid-genre work, and criticism. She has translated Poetry After the Invention of América: Don’t Light the Flower by Andrés Ajens (Palgrave Macmillan); Mouth of Hell (Action Books), The Tango Lyrics (Quattro Books), Dark Museum (Action Books), and The Annunciation (Action Books) by María Negroni; and Edinburgh Notebook and This Blue Novel by Valerie Mejer Caso (Action Books–National Translation Award semi-finalist).  She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Howard Foundation, as well as a Fulbright US Scholar’s Grant to Argentina, a PEN/Heim Translation Prize, and a SUR Translation Support grant. She is the author of Attached Houses (Brooklyn Arts Press) and Object Permanence (Ornithopter Press), and her poetry has appeared in jubilat, Spoon River Poetry Review, Seedings, and other publications. At Saint Vincent College, she directs the Minor in Literary Translation and the publisher Eulalia Books.