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 shapes bodies and landscapes. This work has appeared 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. Miranda has taught creative writing at the University of Arizona and Marquette University and now works as an independent editor and book coach, among other jobs. Since 2022, she’s co-directed the Infinite Text Collective, a mostly digital space for critical-creative writing experiments, with Paige Sweet. Most recently she trained as a DNR Master Naturalist and is slowly testing ways of bringing such writing experiments into the work of land restoration and caring for public space.