Michael Martin Shea is the author of multiple chapbooks of poetry and hybrid writing, including To Hell With Good Intentions (Beautiful Days Press, 2024). He is also the translator of the Argentine poet, Liliana Ponce, and has published two bilingual editions of her work: Diary (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) and Fudekara (Cardboard House Press, 2022). His poems and translations have appeared in Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Guernica, jubilat, New England Review, Poetry, TYPO, and elsewhere. He lives in Lafayette, LA, and is currently a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania.