Miranda Weiss is a science and nature writer in Homer, Alaska. She is the author of Cold Comfort: A Celebration of the Frozen World, forthcoming from McMillan in January 2027 and Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska, which was a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association bestseller and was picked by The Baltimore Sun as one of the “Best Books for a Snowstorm.”
Her science and nature writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, National Geographic, The American Scholar, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of grants from the Pulitzer Center, Alaska Center for Excellence in Journalism, Food & Environment Reporting Network, University of Alaska, and the Rasmuson Foundation.
Weiss is also a contributing author to This is the Place: Women Writing About Home. Anthology contributors include Pam Houston, Amanda Petrusich, Terry Tempest Williams, Jennifer Finney Boyland, and Jane Wong. The book was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. She lives in Homer, Alaska with her family.
