Michael Martin Shea is a poet, translator, and literary critic. He is the author of multiple chapbooks of poetry, including To Hell With Good Intentions (Beautiful Days Press, 2024) and I'm Sorry But None of This Is My Fault (Essay Press, 2025), as well as the full-length volume The Immanent Fields (New Mundo, 2026). He is also the translator of the Argentine poet Liliana Ponce's Theory of the Voice and Dream (World Poetry Books, 2025). His poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Guernica, Lana Turner, New England Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. He lives in Lafayette, LA, where he is an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.