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Deborah Miranda
Born (1961-10-22) October 22, 1961 (age 63)
Los Angeles, California
EducationPh.D., English
Alma materUniversity of Washington
Occupation(s)Poet, professor
ChildrenMiranda and Danny
Parent(s)Alfred Edward Robles Miranda and Madgel Eleanor (Yeoman) 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]

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.{{cite web}}: 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
  10. ^ https://www.wlu.edu/english-department/faculty-and-staff/profile?ID=x216
  11. ^ https://www.wlu.edu/english-department/faculty-and-staff/profile?ID=x216
  12. ^ https://www.wlu.edu/english-department/faculty-and-staff/profile?ID=x216
  13. ^ https://www.wlu.edu/english-department/faculty-and-staff/profile?ID=x216
  14. ^ https://www.wlu.edu/english-department/faculty-and-staff/profile?ID=x216
  15. ^ https://www.wlu.edu/english-department/faculty-and-staff/profile?ID=x216
  16. ^ https://www.wlu.edu/english-department/faculty-and-staff/profile?ID=x216
  17. ^ https://www.wlu.edu/english-department/faculty-and-staff/profile?ID=x216
  18. ^ https://www.wlu.edu/english-department/faculty-and-staff/profile?ID=x216
  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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