Miranda Moore

Miranda Moore writes fiction and non-fiction and works as a freelance editor and writing coach. Her debut novel, A Beautiful, Terrible Thing (David Fickling Books, 2025), is a contemporary young adult-crossover story that explores grief, love and atonement. Miranda won the DFB and Arvon Search for a Storyteller 2024 and the Wells Festival of Literature book for children 2023 and has been twice shortlisted for a Scottish Book Trust New Writers award. Her fiction leans towards the dark yet hopeful, and she is drawn to unconventional narratives and timeless issues underlaid with tenderness and humour.

Miranda’s second novel, from the point of view of a girl raised by wolves, is a visceral exploration of freedom, identity and connection and examines the need for both the natural and human worlds. In non-fiction, she is working on a book on the Scottish Borders, celebrating land, nature, culture and seasons. Miranda is interested in writing that illuminates some element of what it means to be human; writing that communicates kindness, courage and hope or articulates clarity, purpose and peace in this chaotic contemporary world. Her reverse poem, ‘A World UnLocked’, commissioned for the children’s anthology, Stay at Home! (Cranachan, 2020), responds to the first lockdown as a time to reflect on the way we live in the world, while her lifestyle cookbook, Nomaste (Summersdale, 2020), discusses a mindful, minimal-waste approach to food.

Before books, Miranda worked in newspapers as a features writer and editor. She lives with her family in the Scottish Borders.