Miranda F. Mellis

Miranda Flower Mellis is the author of The Revisionist (Calamari Press, 2007); Il Revisionista (in translation by Leonardo Luccone; Nutrimenti Press, Rome); and Materialisms (Yo Yo Labs at Portable Press, 2008).

She was raised in San Francisco and is a founding editor at The Encyclopedia Project. She has received The John Hawkes Memorial Fiction Prize, The New Voices Sudden Fiction Prize, The Micheal Harper Praxis Prize, and an NEH Independent Research Grant for Situationist Interventions, a free, public educational workshop on Situationist influences on public art (at The People's School in Providence, Rhode Island).

Her writing has appeared in newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and electronic and print literary journals, including Harper's, McSweeney's, The Believer, Cabinet, Fence, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Post Road, Harp & Altar, Sidebrow, No Colony, The Boulder Daily Camera, BeeHive, and elsewhere.

The Revisionist, illustrated by Derek White, was short-listed for The Believer 2007 Book Prize and was a bestseller on Small Press Distribution in summer 2007. It has been reviewed in American Book Review, Verse, Rain Taxi, Women's Review of Books, and Bookslut.

She is currently at work on the forthcoming speculative fiction title—You Want—which takes as its point of departure the conceit that ideas have desires and that they use history to enact and contest them. She also is engaged in a long-term writing and research project on the advent of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, and practices of seed archiving more generally.