Miriam writes so you can’t unsee what’s been hidden. She writes because silence has too many accomplices.

Miriam Thompson is a multi-disciplinary storyteller whose work bridges art, cultural strategy, and investigative journalism. Her practice is not rooted in trend, but in truth—excavating the fractures beneath our cultural myths, interrogating power, and exposing the forces we pretend not to see.

Through Smoke & Bone, she wields storytelling as a scalpel—cutting through silence, performing autopsies on propaganda, and stitching together narratives that refuse easy resolution. Her work is not commentary. It’s confrontation.

Miriam’s essays have explored Black womanhood, Christianity’s African origins, the failures of modern feminism, and the death of common sense in American discourse. Her voice is sharp, lyrical, and deeply informed—a rare fusion of poetic rhythm and journalistic precision.

As co-founder of McCalman.Co, she has led narrative strategy and institutional repositioning for museums, artists, and cultural movements that demand depth, not platitudes. Her work is grounded in the belief that storytelling is an act of liberation. A way of reclaiming what history tried to erase.