Miranda Hope Diaz
Writer and Scientist

About

Miranda is a poet, fiction writer, and public health scientist. Born and raised in Florida, she now lives and works in San Francisco. Her fiction has appeared in the South Florida Poetry Journal, Club Plum, and was awarded the Coppice Prize in 2025. Her poetry has appeared in The Closed Eye Open, The Rumpus, Poetry Breakfast, and Cellar Door, where she won the 2018 First Prize in Poetry as an undergraduate.

Selected Fiction
The Last Florida Panther
South Florida Poetry Journal
Eleanor Underwater
Club Plum
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
Observational
The Closed Eye Open
Curator
The Rumpus
I Collect Mothers
Poetry Breakfast
Abuelo
First Prize - Cellar Door