Miranda Sawyer is an English journalist and broadcaster. She grew up in Wilmslow, Cheshire with her brother Toby, an actor best known for his part in the short-lived revival of Crossroads, and took a degree in Jurisprudence at Pembroke College, Oxford. She moved to London to begin her career as a journalist.
In 1993, she became the youngest winner of the PPA Magazine Writer of the Year award for her work on Select magazine. She wrote a column for Time Out from 1993 to 1996 and one for The Mirror from 2000 to 2003. She is now a feature writer for The Observer, Esquire's motoring correspondent and a contributing editor to The Face. Her writing appears in GQ, Vogue and The Guardian and she is a regular critic at arts shows across all media, as well as a member of the judging panel for the 2007 Turner Prize. In 2004, Miranda Sawyer wrote, researched and presented an hour-long documentary for Channel 4 about the age of consent entitled, Sex Before 16: How the Law Is Failing. She also took part in a celebrity edition of BBC 2's afternoon quiz show, The Weakest Link. Her first book Park and Ride, a travel book on the Great British suburbs, was published by Little, Brown and Company in 1999 and has been reprinted several times.
