Miranda Martinez-Herbert is a literary writer and teacher who merges craft and faith. She has a BA in English from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and an MFA in Creative Writing from Regis University. She is the author of, A Church Girl’s Recovery: Seasons of a Pornography Struggle (Resource Publications), and her work has also been published in borrowed solace, The Colorado Springs Gazette, and Odyssey.

Miranda is a native of Colorado, and her mountain upbringing inspires her writing. She uses the natural world to journey through her emotional and spiritual pilgrimage, and focuses on themes of diversity, social justice, trauma, her faith in Jesus, nature, her Hispanic and Navajo heritage, military life, and the balance of joy and grief.

She is currently working on her second book, We Begin and End with Water: Essays of a Military Wife (working title). This hybrid memoir and collection of essays explores the forced redirections of military life and merges lyric mediation with lived experience, leaving readers with an authentic understanding of what military life is really like.

Besides her personal writing, Miranda is also a Freelance Developmental Editor and Writing Coach. She has worked with clients of all genres but specializes in nonfiction and poetry. She enjoys working with clients and stretching their projects to create more beautiful, vulnerable, and intentionally crafted writing.

Her love of writing and Jesus has also led her to create a faith-based writing group through her local church in Montana. Taught at a collegiate level, the group included craft seminars, writing prompts, and workshops for writers of all levels and ages. She has since moved from Montana, but joyfully handed off the group and they still meet and write together.

With her experience in writing, publishing, and teaching, she has also been able to speak at events. She has spoken at youth summer and winter retreats, church conferences, podcasts, and newspapers. Themes she has spoken about include women and pornography recovery, creativity and the church, and trauma and hope. More recently, she was invited to be a Guest Faculty Speaker for Regis University’s MFA program and talked about the ins and outs of publishing.  

Miranda’s dream is to one day be a Literary Agent and represent books that are crafted toward truth, but in the meantime, she’s enjoying writing and living in New Mexico with her military husband and two dogs, Biscuits and Gravy.