Miranda July is a filmmaker, performing artist, and writer.
She grew up in Berkeley, California where she began her career by writing plays and staging them at the local punk club. July’s videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in the 2002 and 2004 Whitney Biennials.
Her short fiction has been published in The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, and The New Yorker. Her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, is forthcoming in May 2007.
July created the participatory web site, learningtoloveyoumore, with artist Harrell Fletcher and a companion book will be published by Prestel in fall 2007.
In 2005, she wrote, directed, and starred in her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or.
Miranda July is currently working on a new performance and currently lives in Los Angeles.
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