Miranda Wilcox is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where she teaches medieval literature. Her research focuses on the intersections of religious and textual culture in early medieval Europe, especially in Anglo-Saxon England. She is co-editor with John D. Young of Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy. She received a master's and doctorate in medieval studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Miranda contributed a chapter to As Iron Sharpens Iron: Listening to the Various Voices of Scripture.