Biography & Scholarship

Miriam is a poet and translator. Their poetry appears in Colorado Review, Black Warrior Review, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. Their translation of Astrakanerna (The Garden of the Dead) by Marie Lundquist won an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Nadia Christensen Translation Prize and is forthcoming with Ugly Duckling Presse. Miriam’s writing has received support from the Vermont Studio Center and the American Literary Translators Association. 

Organizational Affiliations

Lecturer, English, College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Idaho

Associate Director of the Writing Center, English, College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Idaho

Education

Creative Writing
07/2022–04/2025, Master of Fine Arts (MFA, MFA), University of Idaho (United States, Moscow) - UI
Environmental Studies
09/2012–11/2015, Bachelor of Arts (BA, AB, BS, BSc, SB, ScB), University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (United States, Ann Arbor) - UM