Rachel Miranda is a freelance editor and writing coach for literary, academic, and cultural works, specializing in manuscript development and translation editing. She holds an MFA in Writing and Literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars and a BA in European Cultural Studies from Brandeis University. She is the managing editor of Plamen Press, a small publisher of translated Eastern and Central European literature, and the co-recipient of a Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other grants.

She is the author of The World at Our Table: A Euro-American Cookbook of Family Favorites, and writes a Substack series called Air Hunger. Her creative writing across genres has been published in a range of online and print journals. She lives in the metro New York area, where she continues her creative writing practice and provides freelance editing services for clients near and far. Her debut novel, Broken Chocolate, is forthcoming from Vine Leaves Press in 2026.