Miranda Beeson is a poet, educator and arts consultant. She is the author of Field Sonnets (Ink & Ribbon Press, forthcoming March 2027), Wildlife (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023), and several chapbooks, including Ode to the Unexpected from novelist Peter Cameron's press, The Jones of It and Catch & Release, finalists for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize.

Her poems appear in numerous journals and anthologies including Barrow Street, The Southampton Review, The Best American Poetry, Comstock Review, and Melville House’s Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets. She received her MFA from Stony Brook Southampton.

Awards & Honors include the 2026 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Award, Palette Poetry’s Spotlight Award, a Jody Donohue Poetry Prize, Chicagoland's Sonnet Award, and the support of NYSCA for her writing programs.

As an educator, she has developed and taught poetry and creative writing programs in libraries, community centers, as a teaching artist in the schools, at Poets House in NYC & Stony Brook University. She hosts two ongoing Writers Collectives, the Sunday Poets and From Left To Write.

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.

(Photo by Jess Paul)