Miranda Cooper

Miranda Cooper

Miranda Cooper is a NYC-based writer, editor, and literary translator.

Miranda’s book reviews, cultural criticism, and essays have been published by several outlets, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, Jewish Currents, the Jewish Book Council, the Yiddish Book Center, JTA, Alma, and Tablet. Her literary translations from the Yiddish have been published in Pakn Treger and Jewish Currents. She currently serves as book reviews editor of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies, a regular fiction reviewer for Kirkus Reviews, and a contributing editor for The Southampton Review. She was a 2019-2020 Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow and a 2020 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critic.

Miranda graduated from Williams College, where she studied English and Jewish Studies and received highest honors for a thesis about Philip Roth’s image in contemporary Jewish American fiction. She is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at SUNY’s Stony Brook Southampton, where she is the winner of the Sally Martell Prize for an outstanding woman writer.