Michelle Gil-Montero is a poet and translator of contemporary Latin American poetry. She is the author of one book of poetry, Attached Houses (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013). Her book translations include Poetry After the Invention of América: Don't Light the Flower by Andrés Ajens (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011), Mouth of Hell by María Negroni (Action Books, 2013), The Tango Lyrics by María Negroni (Quattro Books, 2013), This Blue Novel by Mexican poet Valerie Mejer (Action Books, 2015), and Dark Museum (Action Books, 2015).