Michael Palma has published two chapbooks of poetry, The Egg Shape and Antibodies, and one full-length collection, A Fortune in Gold. His translations include prize-winning volumes of Guido Gozzano and Diego Valeri, as well as books by Sergio Corazzini, Armando Patti, Luigi Fontanella, Franco Buffoni, and Paolo Valesio. He edited New Italian Poets with Dana Gioia and a volume of translations from Luciano Erba with Alfredo de Palchi. His translation of Dante’s Inferno was published in January 2002 by W. W. Norton and Company and his publication with BOA Editions, Ljuba Merlina Bortolani’s The Siege, was published in 2002.