Meet Mira

Mira Ptacin is a literary journalist, memoirist, New York Times–bestselling ghostwriter, editor, and professor of creative writing. She is the author of the award-winning memoir Poor Your Soul (Soho Press, 2016), named a Best Memoir of the Year by Kirkus Reviews as well as the Junior Library Guild Selection of the Year; and The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna (Liveright–W. W. Norton & Company, 2019), a genre-blending work of feminist history, memoir, and ethnography, which the New York Times praised as ideal pandemic reading.

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