Miranda Beeson is the author of Wildlife (Spuyten Duyvil) as well as the chapbooks Ode to the Unexpected from novelist Peter Cameron's Shrinking Violet Press, The Jones of It and Catch & Release, recent finalists for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. Her poems appear in numerous journals and anthologies including Barrow Street, The Southampton Review, The Best American Poetry, Typishly & Melville House’s Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets. She received her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton.

Awards & Honors include Palette Poetry’s Spotlight Award, a Jody Donohue Poetry Prize, Chicagoland's Poets & Patrons Sonnet Award, and the support of NYSCA for her writing programs.

As an educator, she has created and taught poetry and literacy programs in libraries, community centers and school systems (K-12), and supervised NYSCA grants for arts programming in schools throughout Suffolk and Nassau counties. More recently, she has taught creative writing & literature at Stony Brook University, and leads poetry workshops including Poets4Poets, a Sunday "jam session" where poets meet to work through the creative process and tackle the minefield of publication.

She consults in the field of intellectual property, negotiating rights and permissions for the use of protected properties including film, photography, music, visual/fine arts, literary material & more.

Miranda B lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where she appreciates Riverside Park, and on the North Fork of Long Island where she appreciates Peconic Bay.