Michelle Bailat-Jones

MICHELLE BAILAT-JONES is a writer and translator living in Switzerland, originally from the Pacific NW. Her debut novel, Fog Island Mountains, won the 2013 Christopher Doheny Prize from the Center for Fiction. She has translated the work of renowned Swiss modernist C.F. Ramuz (Beauty on Earth, Onesuch Press, 2013, and What if the Sun… Onesuch Press, 2016), along with work by Claude Cahun, Laure Mi-Hyun Croset, Julia Allard Daudet and Céline Cerny. Her translations, fiction, poetry, and criticism have appeared in various journals including Hayden’s Ferry Review, Necessary Fiction, Ascent, Fogged Clarity, PANK, Cerise Press, The Quarterly Conversation and The Kenyon Review. She runs a literary blog called Pieces and is the translations editor at Necessary Fiction.