Miranda Mellis is the author of the novel Crocosmia; three novellas, The Revisionist, The Spokes, and The Quarry; and a short-story collection, None of This Is Real. Poetry and nonfiction books and chapbooks include Demystifications, Unconsciousness Raising, and Materialisms. She is the co-author of two book-length dialogues: The Instead with Emily Abendroth and Passing Through with Rick Moody (forthcoming from Solid Objects/ Wesleyan University Press, 2027). With Tisa Bryant and Kate Schatz, she was a founding editor at The Encyclopedia Project. She grew up in San Francisco and now lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest where she is a professor at The Evergreen State College. “The Albuquerque/Kentucky Dialectic” is an excerpt from The Revolutionary (forthcoming, Nightboat Books 2028).