Miranda Sawyer is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. She was born in Bristol in 1967. Her family moved to Wilmslow, Cheshire, where Sawyer attended Cheadle Hulme School. She studied Jurisprudence at Oxford University. Her career as a journalist began in 1988, when Sawyer joined the staff of Smash Hits magazine. She left Smash Hits in 1990 to write for Select magazine. She won the Periodical Publishers Association Magazine Writer of the Year award in 1993 for her work on Select, becoming the youngest winner of the accolade.

While working for Select, Sawyer also wrote columns for Time Out magazine. She began writing for The Face magazine in 1994. Since 1993, Sawyer has also been a feature writer for The Observer newspaper and has been The Observer’s radio critic since 2005. Between 2000 and 2003, Sawyer wrote a column for the Daily Mirror newspaper. Her writing also appears in GQ, Vogue and The Guardian.

Sawyer is a regular guest on The Culture Show and Newsnight Review for BBC television and hosts BBC 6 Music’s Sound and Vision radio show.

In 2007, Sawyer was on the judging panel for the Turner Prize. Between 2008 and 2017, she was a Council Member at the Tate Galleries.

Sawyer is the author of two books: “Park and Ride”, which explores British suburbs as a travel guide, and “Out of Time”, an examination of the modern midlife crisis.

Sawyer is married to the actor Michael Smiley, with whom she has two children.