Miranda R. Carter is the author of The World and My Body in It‍ ‍and several essays, stories, reviews, and poems published in River Teeth Journal, On the Seawall, Idaho Magazine, Pictura Journal, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Livina Press, Eunoia Review, Calla Press Publishing, Pile Press, The Statehouse File, and more forthcoming.

In 2020, she won an award for her short story, “My Mother’s Sky,” on Reedsy. She is the former co-editor of The Calendula Review, a California-based journal of narrative medicine.

The World and My Body in It, ranked on Barnes and Nobles’ Top 100 bestsellers list upon its release. In 2024, Miranda was biographized in Marquis Who’s Who, a directory with a 126-year-old history of “aiming to profile leaders and influencers in different areas of society.”

Miranda is from Moscow “Heart of the Arts” Idaho. She studied journalism and wrote for Army ROTC and the agricultural department at the University of Idaho before moving to Colorado to write weekly columns for local newspapers and coach basketball.

She earned her graduate degree in communications and leadership from Gonzaga University after developing and implementing a writing workshop for the incarcerated, and has since taught at universities in Montana, Washington, California, and Indiana.