Michelle Chan Schmidt is a writer, translator, and critic from Hong Kong, awarded the ALTA 2025 Emerging Translator Mentorship for Poetry from Hong Kong and an NBCC 2025-2026 Emerging Critic Fellowship. Her reviews have been published in The Baffler, The Cleveland Review of Books, Full Stop, Public Books, Words Without Borders, and others, and her translations of Hong Kong literature in Modern Poetry in Translation, Wasafiri¸ Words Without Borders, and others. She lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.
Michelle Chan Schmidt
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Writing on Public Books
The Life of the Mind of a Factory Worker
“Beware to those who read ‘Adrift in the South’ solely as a cautionary tale about the Chinese state without considering the international flows of goods and power.”
The Origin of Love and Nightmares
Hong Kong has become an apt prism through which to probe the skin tissue between state violence and victimization, and the widening wounds to personal freedom.
