Miranda July

Miranda July is an American filmmaker, actress, writer, and performance artist born in Barre, Vermont, in 1974. She grew up in Berkeley, California. Her debut short story collection No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007) won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her debut novel The First Bad Man (2015) was a New York Times Notable Book. All Fours (2024) was longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. July is also known as a director of the films Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) and Kajillionaire (2020).