Michael Martin Shea is the author of multiple chapbooks of poetry and hybrid writing, including To Hell With Good Intentions (Beautiful Days Press, 2024) and I'm Sorry But None of This Is My Fault (Essay Press, 2025). 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 in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Guernica, jubilat, 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.