Michele Bantz is an American translator of Spanish and Portuguese. She attended the Middlebury’s Portuguese School as a Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace and earned her MA in translation from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. A Bread Loaf alumna and recipient of the inaugural Granum Foundation Translation Prize in 2021, Bantz has been awarded funding, fellowships, and writing residencies from the American Literary Translators Association, the New York Circle of Translators, The Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Translation Folio
Winter 2025
The Grandfather
The Kenyon Review · “The Grandfather” by Nuno Camarneiro (trans. Michele Bantz) My paternal grandfather was blind from birth. His name was Mehmet, and he was a portly, cheerful man […]