Miriam Calleja is a poet, artist, translator, writer, and workshop leader. Her full poetry collections are Pomegranate Heart (EDE Books, 2015) and Inside (EDE Books, 2016). Her poetry chapbooks are Remember (Stamparija Reljic, 2020), Stranger Intimacy (Stamparija Reljic, 2020), and Come Closer, I Don’t Mind the Silence  (BottleCap Press, 2023). Her first translation from the Maltese is Variations on Silence (PoetryWala, 2025).  Her work has appeared in Taos, Plume, Humana Obscura, and elsewhere. Miriam is the winner of the table // FEAST 2025 translation competition. She was the 2025 Artist-in-Residence for the Mobile Medical Museum. Miriam is a co-editor at Brick Road Poetry Press and the 2025 prose in translation co- editor at table // FEAST. Miriam is from Malta and lives in Birmingham, AL.