Miranda Pierson

Stories about the myths we build to survive, and what it costs to keep believing them.

Miranda Pierson, seated in front of a bookshelf, holding a pipe and a feather quill
Southern Gothic & Literary Fiction

Two novels in progress — a cursed inheritance in an Appalachian hollow, and a self-made queen inside a dying MMO. Sign up below to hear when either one is ready.

Current Work

The Books

Complete · 100,000 words · Standalone

Melissa of the Bees

Southern Gothic YA fantasy

Seventeen-year-old Melissa Larkin is bound by a deadly curse to her small Appalachian mountain town — and to the mother who has promised to kill her when she turns eighteen.

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In Progress · ~80,000 words drafted

When I Was A Queen

Literary fiction with speculative elements

By day, Nora is a wife in Boulder, Colorado, taught to flinch in her own bed. By night, she becomes Anguissette — a self-crowned queen the men around her would follow off a cliff.

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