Michelle Mirabella

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Michelle Mirabella is a Spanish-to-English literary translator. In addition to her translation of Catalina Infante’s debut novel, The Cracks We Bear (World Editions, 2025), her work appears in the anthologies Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum, 2024) and Daughters of Latin America (HarperCollins, 2023) as well as in such venues as World Literature Today.

Ways We Survive (or How Fiction Helps Us to Understand Violence)
By Catalina Infante Beovic

October 14, 2025 Catalina Infante Beovic
Looking at the work of three writers—Han Kang, Mariana Enríquez, and Margaret Atwood—Catalina Infante Beovic finds stories that allow readers to freely exorcize the fears inherent to our times.…
Seeing through a Different Lens: A Conversation with Catalina Infante Beovic
By Michelle Mirabella

August 1, 2022 Michelle Mirabella
Michelle Mirabella and Catalina Infante Beovic at the Women's March on 8M after the interview. Translator Michelle Mirabella interviews author Catalina Infante…
Like Creeping Lava
By Catalina Infante Beovic
July 2022
Catalina Infante Beovic
In the following essay, the author explores the apathy she finds even within herself in the face of a gradually expanding drought in Chile, the country most affected by the water crisis in Latin…
The Forest of Puerto Varas
By Catalina Infante Beovic
Autumn 2021
Catalina Infante Beovic
Photo by Trevor Vannoy on Unsplash THE CITY—rainy, with moody skies and smoke rising from the rooftops—gazes at the yawning lake that protects her, as if searching for someth…
Ferns

June 8, 2020 Catalina Infante Beovic
Photo: Quentin Lagache / Unsplash In this story of lengthy quarantine due to an unnamed virus, a woman sneaks into the mountain to collect ferns—many ferns. Simultaneously evoking life un…