Writer. Novelist. Storyteller.
Words bridge worlds, experience, understanding. They unearth, expose, dismantle, confound, illuminate, shatter and heal.
Writing reminds us what it means to be human.
echo bridge
a novel
In rural North Arkansas, September 1965, favored son Joshua Collier vanishes at the start of his senior year. He’s last seen on Echo Bridge: landmark, gathering place, memory touchstone and artery between the town and woodlands, white and black enclaves, new and old ways. Despite initial law enforcement and community searches, Josh remains missing with no word and no body found.
Did he jump, did he slip and fall, was he pushed? Did he run away or meet harm elsewhere?
A chapter from the novel appears in Chautauqua Journal’s 2022 issue as the short story “Deluge.”
Miriam is a multiple finalist for the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards and received Honorable Mention in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. You can read a copy of her short story here.