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 Miranda was of French and Jewish ancestry.

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".
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. She is one of the editors of the two-spirits literature collection Sovereign Erotics.
Miranda was awarded a 2015 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award.

Books

Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, Heyday Press, 2012.
Sovereign Erotics: An Anthology of Two-Spirit Literature. Ed.,with Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice and Lisa Tatonetti. U of Arizona P
The Zen of La Llorona, Salt Publishing, 2005.
Indian Cartography, Greenfield Review Press, 1999, Cover Art by Kathleen Smith

Anthologies

"What's Wrong with a Little Fantasy? Storytelling from the 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 ; also published in Multicultural Review
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.