Who is MiM?

MiM the professional

MiM, or Miriam Trujillo has spent her life finding artistic beauty in everywhere.  But her appreciation of beauty in nature, service, and community came when she moved to rural Alaska.  

Miriam grew up reading, reading, reading.  Some of the best writers in the world, Charles Dickens, L.M. Montgomery, C.S. Lewis, Harper Lee, George Macdonald, L Frank Baum, Charlotte Bronte, and J.R.R Tolkien all taught Miriam how use her imagination and to work hard to find just the right word for every occasion. She grew up going to performances at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and became a nerd on all things opera. Living in England for a spell, and getting to visit countries such as Denmark, Italy, Argentina, and Ireland really exposed her to the art, architecture, dance, and music of other cultures.  She always gravitated towards  learning more about classical music, travel, cinema, history, languages, and ballet. To date, those are some of her favorite topics to write about.  When it comes to all topics in the arts, Miriam has a scope and depth of experience that only a life-long immersion can bring.

But none of that prepared Miriam for the beauty she would find when she moved to Western Alaska.  That beauty could be described as the beauty of nature. It could be described as the beauty of living in a place full of characters, strange doings, and the past and present mixing together like one big time machine.  Or, it could be described as the beauty of a close knit community that cared about each other.  Whatever the case, Miriam learned that beauty is woven into every element of a healthy lifestyle.

Miriam has extensive writing experience in journalism, academia, and fiction.  Her academic work includes term-long seminars at Oxford England (as an associate student affiliated with New College) where she researched and wrote multiple papers on the works of Charles Dickens, the meaning in music, and the works of William Shakespeare.  Another piece of academic writing she is proud of is a thesis that researched the role of story structure in lieder music and contemporaneous fairy tales.

As a journalist, Miriam has written for KNOM Radio mission in her hometown of Nome Alaska .  She was the sole radio reporter reporting on Nome’s Educational and Cultural beats for a year, and wrote stories covering the local school board decisions, sports’ news, and some of the schools’ cultural events.  Her reporting extended beyond the cultural and educational, however.  Some of her most notable stories include reporting on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the 2022 Arctic Report Card, and the water and sanitation grant given to the Indian Health Service by the Biden Administration in 2022.  Several of her stories were picked up by larger Alaska news outlets or shared by prominent Alaskan political leaders.

As a fiction writer, Miriam is the author of one (nearly completed) children’s book, a couple of film scripts, and several short stories and poems.

MiM in person

Miriam grew up in the Midwest, studied in England, got her degree in Washington DC, and moved to Nome Alaska in 2021.  When she is not writing, she is usually daydreaming up stories to write, walking on the tundra or Bering Sea beach, or singing. Other than writing, her four biggest goals in life are to get a degree from Oxford, live in Edinburgh Scotland, race in the Iron Dog (a 2,500 Alaskan snow machine race), and to start a side hustle as a mermaid performer. She enjoys biking, reading, volunteering in her community, and referring to herself in the third person.