Michelle Gil-Montero is an Argentine-American poet and translator of contemporary Latin American poetry, hybrid-genre work, and criticism. She is interested in translation poetics, ecology, queerness, visual poetry/printing, and sound. Her recent translations include Berlin Interlude (Black Square Editions,) and Exilium (Ugly Duckling Presse,) by Argentine writer María Negroni.

She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Howard Foundation, as well as a Fulbright US Scholar's Grant to Argentina and a PEN/Heim Translation Prize. Her translations have been longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and the National Translation Award.

She is the author of the poetry collection Object Permanence (Ornithopter Press) and the chapbook Attached Houses (Brooklyn Arts Press), and her writing has appeared recently in Interim Poetics, Spoon River Poetry Review, Black Sun, Figure 1, and other magazines. She is a Professor of English at Saint Vincent College, where she directs the Minor in Literary Translation. She is the founding editor of poetry-in-translation press, Eulalia Books (eulaliabooks.com). She lives in Pittsburgh.