Michelle Bailat-Jones

Michelle Bailat-Jones is a writer and translator. She is the author of two novels, Fog Island Mountains (2014) and Unfurled (2018).

Her fiction, poetry, translations, and criticism have appeared in a number of journals, including The Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, The View from Here, Hayden’s Ferry Review, the Quarterly Conversation, PANK, Spolia Mag, Two Serious Ladies, Cerise Press and The Atticus Review.

She has translated two novels by the acclaimed Swiss author, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, Beauty on Earth and What if the Sun..., both published by Skomlin Press. Other translations include work from Julia Allard Daudet, Clarisse Francillon, Laure Mi-Hyun Croset, Claude Cahun and Céline Cerny.

She was born in Japan, grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and now lives in Switzerland.