Miranda July is a writer, filmmaker, and artist. Her debut novel, The First Bad Man, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty-three countries. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker. Her novel All Fours was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award, the Women’s Prize, and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. In 2025, she was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. July lives in Los Angeles.