Miranda Emmerson is a playwright, author and academic.

Miranda grew up in London before studying English at Oxford and Playwriting Studies at Birmingham. In her twenties she worked as a secretary, receptionist, bookseller, shop assistant and charity worker. On the way towards her career in writing she edited and wrote for charity and magazine websites, and scripted audio magazines for people with a learning disability.

She now lives in South Wales with her husband and daughters (where she understands Cymraeg much better than she speaks it!)

She's been a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra (sometimes as Miranda Davies) where she specialises in adapting books for dramatic serialisation. She recently adapted Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, returning it to its Welsh roots, for a 2026 Celtic Christie season on Radio 4.

She is the author of one travel memoir and two novels set in some of the less-chronicled communities of 60s London. Her short story Swim was shortlisted for the Rhys Davies Short Story Award and is available in The Man on the Train (Parthian).

When she’s not writing prose and drama, she works as an academic. She has a PhD from Cardiff University’s School of Modern Languages looking at the history of BBC Radio drama adaptation and the way in which it has shaped the cultural construction of Britain’s national and regional identities. She has worked on media narratives around women boxers at the University of South Wales, looking at the way in which myth, fairytale and religious narratives have been adapted to deal with the ‘problem’ of women who are good at fighting. She is currently researching Jewish lives in the thirteenth-century west of England.

Miranda is represented for fiction and non fiction by Caroline Hardman at Hardman & Swainson. She's MirandaEmmerson on Bluesky...