Miranda MellisMiranda Mellis was raised in San Francisco. She is the author of Demystifications (2016); The Quarry (2013); THE SPOKES (Solid Objects, 2012); NONE OF THIS IS REAL (Sidebrow Books, 2012); Materialisms (2009); and THE REVISINIST (Calamari Press, 2007). Her stories and essays have appeared in various publications over the years, most recently Conjunctions and Black Box: A Record of the Catastrophe, Vol.1. Mellis cofounded and edits THE ENCYCLOPEDIA PROJECT, now in its final volume. She has been awarded the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction, the Michael J. Harper Praxis Prize, and residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts and Millay Colony. An adjunct for a decade, she taught at nine different colleges, including Mills College and California College of the Arts, before acquiring her current full-time position at The Evergreen State College which has no requirements, no majors, no departments, and no grades.

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