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Miranda Newman is a bestselling author.

Her debut memoir-in-essays, ROUGH MAGIC, a collection about living with borderline personality disorder, was published by McClelland & Stewart in April 2024.

Miranda’s work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Broadview Magazine, The Walrus, and more. Her story, “Kids in Crisis,” received an honourable mention from the National Magazine Awards. She writes a monthly(ish) newsletter, Life as a Lunatic, about coping with mental illness.

Miranda holds a bachelor of journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly, Ryerson University). From 2021 to 2022, she was a Fellow at Yale University’s Lived Experience Transformational Leadership Institute. In 2023, she was selected to be a mentor at the Yale program. Miranda also sits on numerous mental health advisory councils and is a member of Workman Arts.