Miranda is from Moscow “Heart of the Arts” Idaho. She studied journalism and wrote for the Army ROTC program and agricultural department at the University of Idaho before moving to Colorado to write weekly columns for local papers and coach basketball. She earned her graduate degree in communications from Gonzaga University after developing and implementing a writing workshop for the incarcerated, and has since taught at universities in Montana, California, and Indiana.
During the pandemic she published her first five personals in various publications, which became the roots of her debut essay collection, The World and My Body in It (Barnes and Noble Press, 2023). She continues to publish in nationwide journals and reviews and co-edits The Calendula Review: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Her writing is a place-based crush of naturalistic and urban spaces and soars with matters pertaining to crucible and delight, obsessions and memories, the vastness of life’s landscape, and what it means to be in a body.
