Michael Martin Shea is a poet, translator, editor, and literary critic. He is the author of multiple chapbooks, including most recently To Hell With Good Intentions and I’m Sorry But None of This Is My Fault. He is also the translator of Argentine poet Liliana Ponce’s Theory of the Voice and Dream. His poems and translations have appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Guernica, jubilat, New England Review, POETRY, and elsewhere. His research on hemispheric poetry and poetics has appeared in Cultural Dynamics and is forthcoming in English Literary History. He is also the co-editor, with Claire Farley, of a special issue of College Literature on “Infrastructural Poetics.”

He earned his PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024. He also holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Mississippi, where he was a John and Renée Grisham Fellow. From 2015 to 2020 he was part of the core editorial team of the Best American Experimental Writing anthology series, published by Wesleyan University Press. He is  currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he is also an affiliated faculty member in Latin American Studies.

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