Miranda Williams (she/her) is a 23-year-old writer from New Mexico who currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona. Her fiction has been published in The MacGuffin, Blue Earth Review, and Booth, among others, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is a recipient of the Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout Writing Award. Miranda received her BA and MA in English Literature from Arizona State University where her research mostly focused on feminist and queer narratives.

She is the lead editor of Ember Chasm Review and has taught at Mesa Community College and Arizona State University. She occasionally holds online lectures on the topics of the “cinematography” of prose and creating atmosphere.
Writing
A List of Extinctions, BOOTH
The Nature of Tasmanian Tigers, The MacGuffin
An Offering to the Sky, Blue Earth Review
Drop-Off, Breakwater Review
Vivarium, The Conium Review
Astral Body, Exposition Review, nominated for Best Small Fictions
This is How the Fairy Queen Dies, Menacing Hedge
Feeding, jmww
Those Who Grow Horns, Ghost Parachute, nominated for the Pushcart Prize
The Apocalypse in Stages or Your First Kiss, Gordon Square Review, selected for the Best Small Fictions Anthology, nominated for Best of the Net
Bugs in Amber, Third Point Press
Molding, Five on the Fifth
Promise, Peatsmoke Journal