Miranda Cowley Heller

Miranda Cowley Heller is an American writer, novelist, and former television executive. Raised in New York City in a literary and artistic family, she graduated from Harvard University. She began her career as a fiction and books editor at Cosmopolitan magazine before moving to Los Angeles, where she spent a decade as the senior vice president and head of drama series at HBO, overseeing acclaimed shows such as The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, and The Wire. She published her debut novel, The Paper Palace, in 2021, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller. She has also published a poetry collection, What the Deep Water Knows.