Michelle Bailat-Jones is a writer and translator.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.In 2013, her translation of Charles Ferdinand Ramuz's 1927 Swiss classic Beauty on Earth was published by Onesuch Press. Other translations include work from Julia Allard Daudet, 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.