Miranda Mellis
Miranda Flower Mellis received an MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University in 2004. She has a book of stories forthcoming from Sidebrow early 2011. She is the author of The Revisionist (Calamari Press); Il Revisionista (in translation by Leonardo Luccone; Nutrimenti Press, Rome, also in translated in Croatia by the literary review Quorum); and Materialisms (Portable Press at Yo Yo Labs). The Revisionist, illustrated by Derek White, was short-listed for The Believer 2007 Book Prize and was a bestseller at Small Press Distribution in 2007. It has been reviewed in American Book Review, Verse, Rain Taxi, Women's Review of Books, and Bookslut. It was recently the inspiration for a 90-foot drawing by Megan Vossler, shown at Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis, 2010. Her story, "The Doctor of Mental Health" was part of the series "Selected Shorts" at Symphony Space, NY, where it was read for broadcast on NPR by David Rakoff. Her fiction may also be listened to on KQED's "Writer's Block".
Mellis grew up in San Francisco and is a founding editor at The Encyclopedia Project. In 1998 she toured with Sister Spit's Rambling Road show in her former capacity as an aerialist in the tiniest circus in the world, The Turnbuckles (gone but not forgotten). She has received The John Hawkes Memorial Fiction Prize, The Micheal Harper Praxis Prize, The New Voices Sudden Fiction Prize, and an NEH Independent Research Grant for Situationist Interventions, a free workshop on Situationist influences on public art held at The People's School in Providence, RI in 2005.
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, Sidebrow, No Colony, BeeHive and elsewhere.
She teaches at California College of the Arts as well as Mills College and Bard College's Language & Thinking Program.
Adjunct Professor, Writing and Literature
BA, Naropa University; MFA Brown University
Contact: mmellis@cca.edu