Of the latter, the scholar and critic Montse Feu writes, "Until Seth Michelson’s Dreaming America, though, no book had exclusively focused on the lives of the incarcerated children.

"[4] His most recent book of original poetry in English is Swimming Through Fire (2017),[5] and it has been translated into Serbian as Plivanje kroz vatru (2020) by Vida Ognjenovic.

[11][12][13][14][15][16][17] It is regularly taught in high schools and universities, and it has been featured nationally and internationally in the press in places as diverse as ABC News,[18] NPR,[19] BBC,[20] and la diaria of Uruguay.

The initial project involved bringing students and faculty from Universidad Católica del Uruguay into the prison to write in partnership each week with incarcerated men under Michelson's guidance, and their collective work attracted widespread media attention.

[28] That fellowship resulted in Women of the Big Sky (2020), the first-ever, single-author book of poetry by a female Mapuche writer from Argentina to appear in English-language translation.