Michelle Miller began writing pseudonymously in 2012, while working as an Associate at J.P. Morgan's Private Bank.
Fiction, for her, is a way of understanding truths the facts can't explain, and logging observations out-of-place in the polite society she wishes to maintain. She is particularly interested in stories that play on the concerns of the modern elite, and in experimenting with new publishing models that revive fiction to a place of relevance within that set. To that end, The Underwriting - a satire of Wall Street & Silicon Valley - was initially released as a weekly serial on a venture-backed multi-media platform she designed and built. After gaining a following there, she sold rights to Penguin to publish it as a novel in 16 translations. For her short stories about women and sex, she partnered with Amazon's new 'Original Stories' imprint to deliver binge-able single-sitting reads under the titles The Fairer Sex and Women on Top. Both works were optioned for TV (Fox and Amazon Studios), based on script adaptations she also penned.
In addition to her fiction, Michelle has experimented with observational video essays, most notably a 2016 TedTalk on the subject of femininity and a 2013 video entitled "How to think like a Man."
After years living the big city life, she started to get off the grid in 2017 and spent the better part of the subsequent decade re-acquainting with nature and the contemplative life it tends to inspire.
She is grateful for that time, and also to be planning a return via the launch of a new project in Spring, 2026.
As for particulars: Michelle holds a B.A. in Russian Literature and an M.B.A from Stanford University. Having been trained in classical ballet, she is now an ultra-endurance runner. She lives between London, England, and Asheville, North Carolina, where she was born and raised.
If you'd like to be in touch, you can reach Michelle at mm@mmpire.com .