Mira Gonzalez

{{short description|American poet (born 1992)}}

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Mira Gonzalez (born May 28, 1992) is an American poet.{{cite web|last1=Smith|first1=Karl|title=Tome On The Range|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/13277-two-poems-mira-gonzalez|publisher=The Quietus|accessdate=13 July 2014}}Quinn Moreland, Impose Magazine, 2019, [https://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/bookish/mira-gonzalez-interview (ALMOST) A TO Z WITH MIRA GONZALEZ], Retrieved September 23, 2019Anisse Gross, September 15, 2015, Publishers Weekly, [https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/people/article/68064-four-questions-for-poet-mira-gonzalez.html Four Questions for...Poet Mira Gonzalez], Retrieved September 23, 2019 Her first collection, i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together, was published by Spencer Madsen of Sorry House press on January 31, 2013.Angela Almeida, December 20th, 2012, NYU Local, [http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2012/12/20/nyu-students-collaborate-to-create-publishing-house/ NYU Students Collaborate To Create Publishing House, Kool A.D. And Tao Lin Weigh In], Accessed July 15, 2014Clare Swanson, March 13, 2014, Columbia Journalist, [http://www.columbiajournalist.org/www/343-independent-publisher-goes-against-the-ebook-tide/story Independent publisher goes against the ebook tide] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140328163131/http://www.columbiajournalist.org/www/343-independent-publisher-goes-against-the-ebook-tide/story |date=2014-03-28 }}, Accessed July 15, 2013, "...first title, a collection of poems by Los Angeles writer Mira Gonzalez..."{{cite web|last1=Fidler|first1=Luke|title=I Will Never Be Beautiful Enough to Make Us Beautiful Together (review)|url=http://theeconomymagazine.com/I-Will-Never-Be-Beautiful-Enough-to-Make-Us-Beautiful-Together-Mira|work=The Economy|accessdate=13 July 2014}}{{cite web|last1=Blueskye|first1=Brian|title=Western Lit: SoCal Poet Mira Gonzalez's Debut Collection Finds Success With Deep Simplicity|url=http://www.cvindependent.com/index.php/en-US/arts-and-culture/literature/item/524-western-lit-socal-poet-mira-gonzalez-s-debut-collection-finds-success-with-deep-simplicity|publisher=CV Independent|accessdate=13 July 2014}} According to Liza Darwin in Nylon magazine, Gonzalez is part of a "whole new crop of cool girl poets" whose work is "clever, totally unfiltered, and peppered with twisted insight and refreshing humor."Liza Darwin (reviewer), January 30, 2014, Nylon magazine, [http://www.nylon.com/articles/new-female-poets# I will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together], Accessed July 15, 2014 She has been published in magazines including Vice, Hobart, and Muumuu House. In 2015, Gonzalez and Tao Lin released Selected Tweets, a collaborative double-book featuring selections from three of her Twitter accounts, as well as visual art and "extras".EMMA KOLCHIN-MILLER, Spectator Staff Writer, April 30, 2015, Columbia Spectator, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150501003040/http://columbiaspectator.com/arts-and-entertainment/2015/04/30/%E2%80%98selected-tweets-new-age-narrative ‘Selected Tweets’ a new-age narrative], Retrieved June 26, 2015 In 2015, the singer Lily Allen posted an image of her hand above Gonzalez's i will not be beautiful enough... book of poems, which led to speculation that the singer's marriage was on shaky ground.Emma Lee-Moss, 3 September 2015, The Guardian, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/sep/03/mira-gonzalez-poems-digital-era-lily-allen Mira Gonzalez’s poems are quietly defining texts of the digital era: The young poet has become unwittingly involved in a social media stir about Lily Allen’s marriage. What’s all the fuss about?], Retrieved September 23, 2019, "......" Gonzalez has described her writing process as follows:

{{Blockquote|I will spend hours on one sentence sometimes, and if I feel that sentence isn’t expressing exactly what I want it to express, I will delete the sentence entirely. I think it takes a lot of precision and tedious work.|Mira Gonzalez, 2014Brian Blueskye, 19 July 2013, CV Independent, [http://www.cvindependent.com/index.php/en-US/music/the-lucky-13/itemlist/user/879-brianblueskye?start=130 Western Lit: SoCal Poet Mira Gonzalez’s Debut Collection Finds Success With Deep Simplicity], Accessed July 15, 2014}}

She is from Los Angeles, California.