Miranda Mellis

Miranda Mellis received an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University in 2004. She is the author of The Spokes (Solid Objects, 2012); None of This Is Real (Sidebrow Press, 2012); Materialisms (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2009); and The Revisionist (Calamari Press, 2007). The Revisionist has been translated into Italian and Croatian and was a finalist for The Believer 2007 Book Award. She has received The John Hawkes Prize in Fiction, The Micheal Harper Praxis Prize, The New Voices Sudden Fiction Prize, and an NEH Independent Research Grant. Her writing has appeared in various publications including Conjunctions, Harper's, McSweeney's, The Believer, Cabinet, Fence, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, American Book Review, Context, Modern Painters, Post Road, Harp & Altar, No Colony, BeeHive, and Paul Revere's Horse. She teaches part-time at the California College of the Arts, Mills College, and the Language & Thinking Program at Bard College. She is a coeditor at The Encyclopedia Project and grew up in San Francisco.