Mira Ptacin is an award-winning memoirist, narrative journalist, editor, and book doula.
About
Mira Ptacin is a literary journalist, memoirist, New York Times best-selling ghostwriter, editor, and professor of creative writing. She is the author of the award-winning memoir Poor Your Soul (Soho Press, 2016), which was named a best book of the year by Kirkus Books, where it received a rare “starred” review. She’s also the author of the genre-blending book of feminist history, memoir, and ethnography, The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna (Liveright-W.W. Norton, 2019), which the New York Times lauded as the best book to read during a pandemic. Mira’s writing frequently appears in the New York Times, New York Times Book Review, Vogue, Poets and Writers, Harper’s, Tin House, LitHub, and more. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she was editor-at-large of their literary magazine, LUMINA. Mira lives on Peaks Island, Maine, and is currently working on her next book.
Press & praise
upcoming events
Maine media workshops
Writing Grief Workshop(online)
Jan 13, 2025 - Feb 5, 2025
over 8 sessions (Mondays & Wednesdays, 1-3pm ET)
To Catharsis & Beyond: a Micro-Memoir Flash Nonfiction 4-Week Generative Zoom Workshop
Thursdays, 6-8p.m. eat
starts November 7th
A Glittery Literary
(Glitt-erary?)
Fundraiser for Incarcerated women in Maine
NOVEL BOOK BAR
Saturday, November 3rd
Doors 6:30, starts 7pm sharp!
643 Congress Street, Portland, maine
PHANTOM pages:
a literary halloween bash
thursday, October 30th
7:30 - 10:30 p.m. (doors open 7 p.m.)
Mechanics Hall
519 Congress Street, Portland, maine
Down East Adventures
Memoir Writing workshop
October 20-22nd
Rangeley Inn
Rangeley, Maine
Mwpa's
Flash prose writing workshop
The Art of the Tiny Truth
Saturday, October 19th
11-4 p.m.
Mechanics hall
519 Congress street, Portland, Maine
REGISTER HERE
Maine Lit Fest
"storytelling in Magazines"
Featuring Jaed Coffin (author of Roughhouse Friday), Michael Paterniti (author of Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays), and Vanity Fair’s Senior Editor Keziah Weir (author of The Mythmakers)
Friday, October 11th 7-8:30p.m.
Mechanics Hall, Portland Maine
A Bizarre Victorian Bazaar:
An Exhibition of Oddities & the Obscure
October 5 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Victorian Mansion
109 Danforth Street
Portland Maine
"The Cliffs"book launch
In Conversation with author
J. Courtney Sullivan
Thursday, July 25th at 2p.m.
Cape Arundel Inn and Resort
Kennebunkport, Maine
To Catharsis & Beyond: a Micro-Memoir Flash Nonfiction 4-Week Generative Zoom Workshop with Mira Ptacin, Starts Tuesday, July 9th, 2024
Flash Nonfiction Writing
"The Skin I'm In"
Sunday, June 23rd, 2024
3-5:30 eastern via ZOOM
Beneath the Iceberg: A Hybrid Introduction to Memoir Saturday, April 20th, 2024
10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
To Catharsis & Beyond: a Micro-Memoir Flash Nonfiction 4-Week Generative Zoom Workshop with Mira Ptacin, Starts Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
Jan. 18 - Feb. 6, 2024
Maine Media Workshops
Wednesday, April 26
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Print Bookstore, 273 Congress St., Portland
Tuesday, May 2
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Bunker Brewing Co, 17 Westfield Street, Portland
May 5 - May 7
The Rangeley Inn, Rangeley Maine
June 26 - June 30
Maine Media Workshops
70 Camden St., Rockport