Synopses & Reviews
Fiction. "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
"THE SPOKES is as elegant as it is daring, as arresting as it is mysterious. It seems to me a truly timeless story, which is to say not only that it removes itself from time—though it does—but that its pleasures, enigmas, and meanings ought to be as accessible fifty or a hundred years from now as they are today."—Kevin Brockmeier
About the Author
Miranda Mellis is the author of three books of fiction, most recently the collection NONE OF THIS IS REAL (Sidebrow Books, 2012) and the short story THE SPOKES (Solid Objects, 2012). Her novella THE REVISIONIST (Calamari Press, 2007) has been translated into Italian and Croatian and was a finalist for the 2007 Believer Book Award. Her chapbook of documentary poetics, Materialisms (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), was published in 2009. She teaches at Evergreen State College, lives in Olympia, and co-edits THE ENCYCLOPEDIA PROJECT. She is a recipient of the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction and an NEH fellowship.