Miranda July is a filmmaker artist and writer. She wrote directed and starred in The Future
(2011) and Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) which won a special jury prize at the
Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival including the Camera d'Or.
July's fiction has appeared in The Paris Review Harper's and The New Yorker. Her collection No
One Belongs Here More Than You (2007) won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
and has been published in twenty-three countries. She is also the author of the nonfictional It
Chooses You (2011) and her first novel The First Bad Man was published in 2015. In 2000 July
created the participatory website Learning to Love You More with the artist Harrel Fletcher
and a companion book was published in 2007 the work is now in the collection of the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She designed Eleven Heavy Things an interactive sculpture
garden for the 2009 Venice Biennale and in 2013 more than a hundred thousand people
subscribed to her e-mail based artwork We Think Alone. This autumn she debuts the
audience-participatory performance New Society and launches Somebody a messaging service
created with support from Miu Miu. Raised in Berkeley California July lives in Los Angeles.
www.mirandajuly.com
