Alicia Miranda Hevia

In 2005, Miranda founded a small press, Editorial Montemira. Miranda is a longtime friend and admirer of the Indian poet Jayanta Mahapatra, and some of his works have been published in Spanish translation by the publishing house.

Miranda began teaching while still a student at the University of Costa Rica, and she returned to teach grammar at the school after coming back to the country in 1981. She continued to work there until 1985.

Her first novel, San Isidro, was published in 1980. She published her subsequent novel La huella de abril in 1989. She has also published nonfiction, including Novela, discurso y sociedad in 1985 and Las sílabas azules in 1991.

Miranda met her first husband, the architecture student Manuel Antonio Argüello Rodríguez, during her time as an activist with the FAENA student organization. The couple married in 1976. After their divorce, Miranda remarried, wedding her primary school classmate Eduardo Montes de Oca. The couple had three sons: Sergio, Mauricio, and Bernardo.

Miranda attended primary school at the Methodist School in San José, then secondary school at the Saint Clare school, where she graduated in 1969. The following year, she left for the United States to begin pre-medical studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She returned to Costa Rica a year later, however, and obtained degrees in French and in Spanish philology from the University of Costa Rica in 1976. Immediately thereafter, she traveled to Paris, where she received a doctorate in Latin American literature from the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 in 1981.

Alicia Miranda Hevia (born 1952) is a Costa Rican writer. She is known for her literary work, as well as for founding the small press Editorial Montemira.

Born Gladys Alicia Eugenia del Rosario in San José, Costa Rica, in 1952, she was the oldest of five siblings. Her father, who was Costa Rican, and her mother, who was Chilean, were both doctors.