Michael Martin Shea is the translator of Argentine poet Liliana Ponce. A bilingual chapbook, Diary, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2018; a second chapbook, Fudekara, was published by Cardboard House Press in 2022. His poems and translations have appeared in Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Fence, Gulf Coast, Jubilat, New England Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia, where he is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania.