LAFAYETTE, La., April 15 -- The University of Louisiana at Lafayette issued the following news release:
Dr. Michael Martin Shea, an assistant professor of English for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's College of Liberal Arts, is the winner of a 2026 PEN America Literary Award for his translation of Argentine poet Liliana Ponce's Theory of the Voice and Dream.
PEN awards are among the most prestigious literary awards in the United States. Along with works of translation, the awards recognize fiction, poetry, science writing, essay, sports writing, biography, children's literature and drama.
For Shea, 37, his PEN Award for Poetry in Translation bookends a 10-year project he began in 2015 while studying and teaching as a Fulbright ...