Miranda Mellis is the author of the novel Crocosmia (Nightboat Books); three novellas, The Revisionist, The Spokes, and The Quarry; and a short-story collection, None of This Is Real. Her poetry and nonfiction books and chapbooks include The Revolutionary, Demystifications, Unconsciousness Raising, and Materialisms. She is the co-author of two book-length dialogues: The Instead with Emily Abendroth and Passing Through with Rick Moody (forthcoming, Solid Objects 2026). She has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and Millay Colony and was the ESRR Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Utah in 2026. With Tisa Bryant and Kate Schatz, she was a founding co-editor at The Encyclopedia Project. She trained at the Upaya Zen Center as an interfaith, all faith, and no faith chaplain. She grew up in San Francisco and now lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest where she teaches at The Evergreen State College. Read her intermittencies at: https://youareinlovewiththeimpossible.substack.com/.