Deborah Miranda
Deborah A. Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area in California. Her book Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, received the prestigious PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, a Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Association, and was short-listed for the William Saroyan Literary Award. This book, now taught in hundreds of universities around the world, traces her family into, through, and out of the Carmel Mission from 1770-2013 with oral stories, mission records, family photographs, newspaper records, ethnographic field notes, and more. The author of three poetry collections—Indian Cartography, which won the Diane Decorah Award for First Book from the Native Writer’s Circle of the Americas, The Zen of La Llorona, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award, and Raised by Humans—she is also working on a collection of essays, The Hidden Stories of Isabel Meadows and Other California Indian Lacunae, under contract with the University of Nebraska Press. A collection of persona poems in the voices of the 21 California missions, which includes her photographs and artwork, is in-progress. As a scholar, Deborah’s research focuses on the lives of California Indians during and after missionization, Indigenous women’s love poetry and erotics, and Two-spirit literature. Deborah Miranda is John Lucian Smith Jr. Endowed Chair of English at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia where she teaches creative writing and literature of the margins.
Address: Lexington, Virginia, United States
Address: Lexington, Virginia, United States
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Sinor, J., & Kaufman, R. (2007). Placing the academy: Essays on landscape, work, and identity. Logan, Utah: Utah State University
Press.
Entire book is available online at https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&ved=0ahUKEwiE2YCz45zVAhWH2T4KHb49Dvc4ChAWCCMwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcommons.usu.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1019%26context%3Dusupress_pubs&usg=AFQjCNFZe7Nk1jxM22L4bojYUwooEyO2Ug
"Art and literature and storytelling are at the epicenter of all that an individual or a nation intends to be. And someone more profound than most said that a nation which does not tell its own stories cannot be said to be a nation at all." Elizabeth Cook Lynn, "Life and Death in the Mainstream of American Indian Biography"
Sinor, J., & Kaufman, R. (2007). Placing the academy: Essays on landscape, work, and identity. Logan, Utah: Utah State University
Press.
Entire book is available online at https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&ved=0ahUKEwiE2YCz45zVAhWH2T4KHb49Dvc4ChAWCCMwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcommons.usu.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1019%26context%3Dusupress_pubs&usg=AFQjCNFZe7Nk1jxM22L4bojYUwooEyO2Ug
"Art and literature and storytelling are at the epicenter of all that an individual or a nation intends to be. And someone more profound than most said that a nation which does not tell its own stories cannot be said to be a nation at all." Elizabeth Cook Lynn, "Life and Death in the Mainstream of American Indian Biography"