Miranda Moore

Miranda Moore is a nonfiction and fiction writer, as well as a freelance editor. She is winner of the Wells Festival of Literature book for children 2023 and has been twice shortlisted for a Scottish Book Trust New Writers award. She was also shortlisted for the Writers’ and Artists’ Short Story 2022. Her fiction explores themes of freedom, identity, loss, resilience, integrity, connection and courage. Her writing tends towards the dark yet hopeful, and she is drawn to unconventional narratives and timeless issues underlaid with tenderness and humour. 

In nonfiction, she is working on a book on the Scottish Borders, celebrating land, nature, culture and seasons. Her lifestyle cookbook, Nomaste (Summersdale, 2020), discusses a mindful and minimal-waste approach to food, and in this and her other published titles she aims to address health and wellbeing topics with substance. With a degree in English and Philosophy and a Masters in International Peace Studies, Miranda is keen to take a philosophical look at finding 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 pause and reflect on the way we live in the world. 

Before books, Miranda worked in newspapers as a features writer and editor. She lives with her family in the Scottish Borders, where she coaches writers and edits nonfiction. She teaches qigong, sings in a band and loves wild places, photography and beautiful food.