RE NONE OF THIS IS REAL

Mellis somehow manages to make a seamless and entrancing collage of progressive concerns, broken-family storylines, and therapy-derived surrealism with a risky, imbricated, and near-constant just-off parataxis. Through an authentic, recognizable mix of u- and dystopias, Mellis traces lives we didn’t quite yet know we were living.

-- Eugene Lim


RE THE SPOKES

In lucid, utterly captivating prose, Miranda Mellis delivers a highly disciplined, deeply melancholy portrait of the living and the dead. I read it transfixed. It is a radiant piece of work.

-- Carole Maso


RE THE REVISIONIST

There's an uncanny lightness about Miranda Mellis's gliding techno-novella. It's slow and glimmery like steam punk--and wise about gender too. She's right up there (for me) with Bob Dylan, folk art, anime and all the kind and great animals and plants of the world. I love this book so much.

-- Eileen Myles


RE THE REVISIONIST

Caught somewhere in that nexus of living, observing and manipulating from which our current American malaise most convincingly reveals itself, the conflicted narrator of Miranda Mellis' taut story telescopulates to capture and possess a variety of lives from a distance. The Revisionist is at once a beautifully simple fable and a wonderfully lyrical apocalyptic tale. Though its motion seems at first Brownian, it manages almost because of this to get to where few books ever manage to go.

-- Brian Evenson

BOOKS & CHAPBOOKS

The Revolutionary
(Albion Books, 2023)

Demystifications
(Solid Objects, 2021)

The Instead
(Carville Annex, 2016)

The Quarry (chapbook)
(Trafficker Press, 2013)

The Spokes
(Solid Objects, 2012)

None of This Is Real
(Sidebrow, 2012)

Materialisms (chapbook)
(Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2009)

Il Revisionista
(Trans. Leonardo Luccone, Nutrimenti, 2008)

The Revisionist
(Calamari Press, 2007)


REVIEWS

Reviews of The Spokes
Bomb
3:AM Magazine
Publisher’s Weekly

Reviews of None of This Is Real:
Rain Taxi
The Southeast Review
htmlgiant
OmniVerse
Parallax
The Rumpus

Reviews of The Revisionist:
Forest Gospel
Verse
Bookslut
Big Other
The Women's Review of Books
Post-Apocalypto
Rain Taxi
Denver Quarterly

Reviews of Il revisionista:
Oblique
Lankelot
RaiLibro
Il Paradiso degli orchi
Fuori le Mura


ELSEWHERE

The Believer
Harper's
The Wig Leaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions
Significant Objects
NYT
Something on Paper
Les Figues
SFMOMA Open Space
Translation 12/12/11
Techgnosis
Green Apple Books’ blog
Page-Turner, New Yorker
Brooklyn Rail