Miranda Schmidt

Miranda Schmidt is a writer, editor, and teacher whose work has appeared in TriQuarterly, The Collagist, Electric Literature, Orion, Phoebe, and other journals. Read more at mirandaschmidt.com and @mirandarschmidt

Stories

Cover Photo: Photographs courtesy of M. Sharkey, Wikimedia Commons; photo illustration by Matt Ortile

Reading My Way Into a Queer Literary Lineage

For queer writers, the discovery of this literary lineage is essential to our very existence, to our very expression of self. We can’t find the words without them.

Miranda Schmidt

Jun 20, 2019

Arts & Culture | Queer Life

Cover Photo: Photograph by Matthew Haggerty/Unsplash

Living with Climate Change in the Forests of Our Burning World

How do I raise a child to love a world that may be dying, to live with compassion in the midst of what could very well be despair?

Miranda Schmidt

Apr 18, 2019

Columns | Tree Talk

Cover Photo: Photograph by Viktor Juric/Unsplash

Finding Sanctuary in Cemeteries, the Forests of the Dead

Even before death takes a loved one, marking us with deep knowledge, we partake of death every day.

Miranda Schmidt

Mar 06, 2019

Columns | Tree Talk

Cover Photo: Photograph by Luis Del Río Camacho/Unsplash

How Trees Complicate Our Understanding of Gender

A few years ago, the UK’s oldest tree, a Yew that had spent thousands of years in the appearance of maleness, began to grow female berries.

Miranda Schmidt

Feb 06, 2019

Columns | Tree Talk