Miranda Darling

Miranda Darling is a writer, poet, and co-founder of Vanishing Pictures. She has published two thrillers, a novel, and a non-fiction work on the Empress of Iran. She read English and Modern Languages at Oxford then took on a master’s in strategic studies and Defence from the Australian National University. She became an adjunct scholar at a public policy think tank specialising in non-traditional security threats. Miranda regularly performs spoken word poetry and writes essays for RUSSH magazine. Ex-model, mamma, short-order cook, divemaster, fencer, nomad…like every woman, she wears many hats. Her novel Thunderhead (2024) is a black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman’s struggle to be free.

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