Samuel Miranda is an educator, poet and visual artist who makes his home in Washington, DC. His work has been published in the anthologies Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC and DC Poets Against the War, and the journals the Chiron Review, MiPoesias and Beltway Poetry Quarterly, among others. He has performed at the Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, The Arts Club of Washington, GALA Theatre, and other venues. Miranda curated the Sabor Sunday reading series in Washington DC, which brought two poets, a trio of musicians and two visual artists into conversation, and is currently working with DC based artists and musicians to create collaborations between the arts. He develops and facilitates interactive poetry workshops for youth and adults and holds an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars.