Deborah A. Miranda

Deborah Miranda is a writer and poet. Her father, Alfred Edward Robles Miranda is from the Esselen and Chumash people, native to the Santa Barbara/Santa Ynez/Monterery, California area. Her mother, Madgel Eleanor (Yeoman) Miranda was of French and Jewish ancestry.[1]

Deborah Miranda
Born (1961-10-22) October 22, 1961
Los Angeles, California
EducationPh.D., English
Alma materUniversity of Washington
OccupationPoet, professor
ChildrenMiranda and Danny
Parent(s)Alfred Edward Robles Miranda and Madgel Eleanor (Yeoman) Miranda

Biography

Miranda's 2012-2013 sabbatical research was funded by a Lenfest Sabbatical Grant for her project "The Hidden Stories of Isabel Meadows and Other California Indian Lacunae".[2] Miranda is working on a collection of essays titled Hidden Stories of Isabel Meadows and other California Indian Lacunae, and a series of poems in the Voices of each California Mission.[3] She is one of the editors of the two-spirits literature collection Sovereign Erotics.[4]

Miranda was awarded a 2015 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award.[5]

Bibliography

Books
  • Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, Heyday Press, 2012.[6]
  • Sovereign Erotics: An Anthology of Two-Spirit Literature. University of Arizona Press, 2011.[7]
  • The Zen of La Llorona, Salt Publishing, 2005.[8]
  • Indian Cartography, Greenfield Review Press, 1999, Cover Art by Kathleen Smith (Dry Creek Pomo/Bodega Miwok)

Anthologies
  • Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California, Kurt Schweigman and Lucille Lang Day (Editors), Scarlet Tanager Books, 2016.
  • Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence, Blue Light Press, 2013.[9]
  • New California Writing, Heyday Books, 2012. [10]
  • Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology, Trinity University, 2012[11]
  • En esa redonda nacion de sangre: Poesia indigena estadounidense contemporanea, La Cabra, 2011.[12]
  • Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas, University of Arizona, 2011. [13]
  • A Bird Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows and Ravens, Green Poets, 2011.[14]
  • Spring Salmon, Hurry to Me, Heyday Books, 2008.[15]
  • Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Vol. 2, Aunt Lute Books, 2007. [16]
  • Red Ink: Love and Erotica, University of Arizona American Indian Studies Program. “The Red Issue: Love and Erotica”, November 2003.[17]
  • A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-Five Years of Women's Poetry, Margarita Donnelly, Beverly McFarland, Micki Reaman (Editors), Calyx Books. 2002.
  • The Dirt Is Red Here: Art & Poetry from Contemporary Native California, Margaret Dubin (Editor), Heyday Books,[18] 2002.
  • This Bridge We Call Home: 20 Years After This Bridge Called My Back, Gloria Anzaldua & AnaLouise Keating (Editors), Routledge.
  • Through the Eye of the Deer, Carolyn Dunn & Carol Zitzer-Comfort (Editors), Aunt Lute Books, 1999.
  • Women: Images and Realities - A Multicultural Anthology, Nancy Schniedewind, Amy Kesselman & Lily D. McNair (Editors), Mayfield Pub., 1999.
  • Durable Breath: Contemporary Native American Poetry, John E. Smelcer, D. L. Birchfield (Editors), Salmon Run Pub.[19]

Journal articles and book reviews
  • "What's Wrong with a Little Fantasy? Storytelling from the (still) Ivory Tower" in American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1&2, ed. by Devon A. Mihesuah .
  • "A String of Textbooks: Artifacts of Composition Pedagogy in Indian Boarding Schools." The Journal of Teaching Writing. Vol. 16.2, Fall 2000.
  • "I Don't Speak the Language that has the Sentences: An Interview with Paula Gunn Allen" in Sojourner: The Women's Forum. February 1999, Vol. 24, No. 2.
  • "A Strong Woman Pursuing Her God: Linda Hogan's Power" in Sojourner: The Women's Forum. November 2000, Vol. 26, No. 3.
  • Fiction Posing as Truth: A Critical Review of Ann Rinaldi's My Heart is on the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, with Marlene Atleo, Naomi Caldwell, Barbara Landis, Jean Mendoza, LaVera Rose, Beverly Slapin, and Cynthia Smith. Also published in Re-thinking Schools: An Urban Education Journal (Summer 1999); also published in Multicultural Review (September 1999, Vol. 8, No. 3)[20]
  • Review of Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn in Sojourner: The Women's Forum. January 1997, Vol. 22, No. 5.
  • Review of Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit by Leslie Marmon Silko in Sojourner: The Women's Forum. November 1996, Vol. 22, No. 93.

References
  1. Miranda, Deborah. "Deborah Miranda". Hanksville.org. Karen M. Strom. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  2. https://www.wlu.edu/english-department/faculty-and-staff/profile?ID=x216
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-12-03. Retrieved 2016-04-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Sovereign Erotics – UAPress". Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  5. "PEN Oakland Awards | PEN Oakland". penoakland.com. Archived from the original on 2016-11-18. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  6. Bad Indians Publisher's page
  7. https://www.wlu.edu/english-department/faculty-and-staff/profile?ID=x216
  8. "The Zen of La Llorona Publisher's page". Archived from the original on 2008-09-21. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
  9. https://www.wlu.edu/english-department/faculty-and-staff/profile?ID=x216
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  19. https://www.wlu.edu/english-department/faculty-and-staff/profile?ID=x216
  20. "Fiction Posing as Truth: A Critical Review of Ann Rinaldi's My Heart is on the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl,". Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
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