Miranda Hope
Diaz Hassan
Writer and Scientist

About

Miranda (she/they) is a poet, fiction writer, and public health scientist. She lives in North Carolina where she researches infectious disease prevention and sexual health (having previously been an archaeologist, stagehand, librarian, and pizza delivery girl, among other things). She was awarded the Coppice Prize for short fiction in 2025 and her poetry has appeared in The Rumpus, Poetry Breakfast, and Cellar Door, where she won the 2018 First Prize in Poetry as an undergraduate.

Selected Fiction
Birthright
Coppice Prize - Redbud Writing
from the anthology:
“A pregnant woman in a climate dystopia discovers the expansiveness of maternal love in a dying world.”
Selected Poetry
Curator
The Rumpus
I Collect Mothers
Poetry Breakfast
Abuelo
First Prize - Cellar Door