Miranda BeesonMiranda Beeson's poems appear all over, including Barrow Street, The Southampton Review, Great Weather For Media, Typishly, & Melville House's Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets. She is the author of the chapbooks Ode to the Unexpectedfrom novelist Peter Cameron's Shrinking Violet Press & The Jones of It, a recent finalist for the Tomaz Salamun Prize. Along the way, she's been the recipient of Palette Poetry's Spotlight Award & a Jody Donohue Poetry Prize. An ardent advocate for Arts in Education, NYSCA has supported her creative writing programs in school systems (K-12). More recently, she has been teaching creative writing & literature at Stony Brook University. She collaborates with artist & designer Nadira Vlaun on limited editions of her prose & poetry-including to date, Salt Meadow & Volatile Activity. She received her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton & lives on the North Fork of Long Island & in New York City.mirandabeeson.com Read More Read Less