Books:
Tesla: The Opera, a book about Violet Fire, the opera about Nikola Tesla with libretto by Miriam Seidel, is forthcoming from Fomite Press.
The Speed of Clouds, a novel, was published by New Door Books in 2018.
SFF stories (written as Mir Seidel) include
- “Polar Shift” (Bourbon Penn, #30)
- “Wantonly and Recklessly” (Into the Ruins)
- “Breathe,” an anthology from Culture Cult
Her short fiction and essays have also been published in Exquisite Corpse, Washington Square, and other journals.
Essays include:
- “Tesla and Gernsback: An Untold Influence on the Birth of the Genre,” in New York Review of Science Fiction
- “Gravity and the Cloud” in Asteroid Belt Almanac, an anthology from The Head & The Hand Press
- “Playing for Prokofiev,” in Calyx, 2024
Writing on the arts include:
- Many reviews and articles for Art in America, as Corresponding Editor
- Catalog essays on artists including Willie Cole, Jan Serr, Beth Ames Swartz, Jeanne Jaffe, John Phillips and Carolyn Healy, Tom Judd, John Langdon, Peter Kinney, and others
- Regularly covered dance, wrote feature articles and art reviews for the Philadelphia Inquirer
- Articles and reviews in ARTnews, Dance, Public Art Review, Art on Paper, New Art Examiner and other journals
- Won several arts writing fellowships and a project grant in literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Dramatic writing
Libretto for Violet Fire, an opera about Nikola Tesla with music by Jon Gibson
Libretto for Judgment of Midas, an opera about the Greek myth with music by Kamran Ince
Editing:
Miriam has edited articles and book-length manuscripts for authors, publishers and journals.
Memberships: SFWA, Codex.