Miranda Phillips Cowley Heller (born in 1961 or 1962)^[1] is a writer, novelist, and TV developer. She is known for her debut novel, The Paper Palace, which was published in 2021 to acclaim.

Cowley Heller grew up in New York in a literary and artistic family.^[1] Her grandfather, Malcolm Cowley, was a renowned poet and critic, her aunt Hayden Herrera is an art historian and biographer, and her sister-in-law Zoë Heller is also a writer.^[1][2][3] She is a graduate of Harvard University.^[4] Cowley Heller was accepted into a PhD program in art history at UCLA but turned it down to move with her husband, Bruno Heller, a British TV screenwriter, for his job.^[4] She currently splits time living in London, Los Angeles, and Cape Cod.^[5][4]

Cowley Heller has had a prolific career across books, magazines, and TV.^[1] She began her career at Cosmopolitan magazine where she worked as a fiction and books editor.^[1][4][3] She spent a decade as head of drama series at HBO in the early 2000s.^[6] While at HBO, she worked on hit shows such as The Sopranos, The Wire, Six Feet Under, Big Love, and Deadwood.^[4][7] As a writer, she has worked both as a ghostwriter and a screenwriting editor.^[6] In 2021, she published her own debut novel, The Paper Palace.^[1]

• (2021) The Paper Palace. New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-0-593-32982-5