Miranda July

She wrote, directed and starred in the films Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) and The Future (2011). She wrote the book of short stories No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007) and the novel The First Bad Man (2015).\n', '

July was born in Barre, Vermont, in 1974, the daughter of Lindy Hough and Richard Grossinger. Her parents, who taught at Goddard College at the time, are both writers. Her parents founded North Atlantic Books, a publisher of alternative health, martial arts, and spiritual titles. Her father was Jewish, whereas her mother was Protestant.\n', '

July was encouraged to work on her short fiction by author and friend of a friend Rick Moody. She grew up in Berkeley, California, where she first began staging plays at a local punk rock club. She attended The College Preparatory School in Oakland for high school. She later attended UC Santa Cruz, dropping out in her so…