Miranda Emmerson is a playwright and author living in Wales. She studied English at Oxford and Playwriting Studies at Birmingham, as well as working as a journalist, a web editor, and a writer for people with a learning disability. In the past fifteen years, she has written numerous drama adaptations for BBC Radio 4 as well as some highly-acclaimed original drama. Her first book, Fragrant Heart, an account of her time living and traveling in Asia, was published in 2014.