Miranda Trimmier is an essayist who’s made homes in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York, and Tucson. Each place shapes her writing, which pays attention to the everyday ways that history lingers in bodies and landscapes. She received her MFA from the University of Arizona and has published essays in Places Journal, Terrain, The New Inquiry, Boom California, and other outlets. In 2020 year her book-in-progress, Strange Machinery, was shortlisted for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Since 2022, she’s co-directed the Infinite Text Collective with Paige Sweet.