Miranda Trimmier is an essayist who lives in Milwaukee and has also made homes in 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 her essay collection Strange Machinery was shortlisted for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize; the book is currently published to the Shoreham Repository experimental archive. She has taught creative writing at University of Arizona and Marquette University and now works as an independent editor and book coach. Since 2022, she’s co-directed the Infinite Text Collective, a (mostly digital) space for critical-creative writing, with Paige Sweet.