Michelle Hartman is an academic and translator.[1] She obtained a BA from Columbia College in 1993 and a DPhil from Oxford University in 1998. She is currently an associate professor of Arabic and francophone literature at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. She is the author of a number of academic papers. She is also the translator of two works of contemporary Arabic literature: Iman Humaydan Younes’s Wild Mulberries and Alexandra Chreiteh's Always Coca-Cola. Wild Mulberries was shortlisted for the 2009 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.[2]